Product Description: "[Bruce Nauman] has had a crucial impact on his peers as well as on countless younger artists in America and abroad."—Robert Storr, critic/curatorPart of PAJ's acclaimed Art + Performance series, this is the first book to combine the essential critical writings on Bruce Nauman, interviews with him, and the artist's own writings, organized around performance issues...read more

Product Description: "Some forty-odd years after Bruce Nauman began tweaking the conventions of studio practice and the hallowed persona of the 'artist-as-seer,'" Pamela M. Lee wrote in Artforum not long ago, "his station in postwar art history rests secure...read more

Product Description: Before spider holes made their media debut, there was Bruce Nauman's spectacular 1972-74 installation Audio-Video Underground Chamber. Its single concrete vault, with dimensions close to those of the human body, is buried--like a coffin--one and a half meters deep...read more

Product Description: Intrigued and inspired by the neon beer signs on shopfronts in his San Francisco neighborhood, Bruce Nauman created his first neon piece, Window or Wall Sign, in 1967. He wanted, he said, to achieve "an art that would kind of disappear--that was supposed to not quite look like art...read more

Product Description: One of the most significant, funny, and nails-on-a-chalkboard jarring artists of the second half of the twentieth century, Bruce Nauman has expanded the scope of traditional art practice and influenced a generation of artists. He has made himself into a fountain (one-upping Marcel Duchamp?), cast the space under a chair, fashioned a screeching carousel of carcass-like parts, reinvented the neon sign as a contemporary haiku, and, most recently, recorded the dullness of his studio in real time...read more

The most comprehensive collection of the artist's work ever published combines sculpture, performance art, video, and text-based works that were included in his many performance pieces.

Product Description: "From the beginning I was trying to see if I could make art that did that. Art that was just there all at once. Like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better yet, like getting hit in the back of the neck. You never see it coming; it just knocks you down...read more