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Nauman Reiterated

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Description for Nauman Reiterated Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 312 pages, 66 black & white illustrations, 15 colour plates. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.

Bruce Nauman has been a force in the art world since the early 1960s with his challenging audio and video installations, photographic art, neon art, and sculptures. However, until now there has been surprisingly little sustained critical analysis of his extraordinary oeuvre.

Nauman Reiterated offers the first scholarly assessment of the artist’s production with an in-depth thematic investigation of key works created between the mid-1960s and mid-1970s. Janet Kraynak argues that the coherence of Nauman’s art can be found not in conventional categorizations of style, medium, or technique, but through understanding the artistic and cultural conditions that led to an ... Read more

Nauman’s reaction to the technological takeover of modern society, Kraynak suggests, is reiteration. Building from these observations, Kraynak explores how performance is intimately associated with the acceleration toward a fully technological society, which sees new modes of electronic recording and reproduction, the growth of information technologies, and the consolidation of technocracy.

Through extensive archival research Kraynak has written a revealing examination of Nauman’s thought-provoking and protean work.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Series
Electronic Mediations
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816683048
SKU
V9780816683048
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About Janet Kraynak
Janet Kraynak is associate professor of art history at the New School. She is the editor of Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman’s Words: Writings and Interviews.

Reviews for Nauman Reiterated
"It had been Nauman’s genius to have reversed Minimalism’s conception of sculpture, from a phenomenological idealism to a post-utopian subjectivity in which the conditions of surveillance, control and exertion are recognized as central in defining experience in the present. And Janet Kraynak’s brilliant study is the first to have given Nauman’s aesthetic ambitions an adequately theorized interpretive apparatus." —Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, ... Read more

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