- Hardcover: 426 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press (Nov 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0262140829
- ISBN-13: 978-0262140829
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
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From Publishers Weekly
Nauman's eerily intuitive way of creating sophisticated, intellectually angular art out of simple gestures-a 10-minute film called "Bouncing Two Balls between the Floor and Ceiling with Changing Rhythms," for example, in which the artist does just that-builds fascination out of repetition's blandness. This set of collected writings is essential for anyone wishing to explore the ideas behind Nauman's practices, even if it duplicates much of the recent Art + Performance volume (Johns Hopkins, 2003) on Nauman and is nearly twice as expensive. Of the group of 19 artist's writings in this book, nine do not appear in the earlier volume on Nauman; one of these, a cheeky comment on "earth art," was intended to be skywritten and is a single line: "Leave the Land Alone." Nauman is mild and reticent as an interviewee, but nine of the 14 interviews here are exclusive to this book, and one-the extensive 1980 interview by Michele de Angelus-has never before appeared in complete form. The long introduction by Kraynak (Andy Warhol: Unique Prints from the Estate of Rupert Jasen Smith) is more satisfactory in its marshaling of basic semantic theory to explain Nauman's relationship to words, and his words' relationships to their contexts, but it lacks the cathartic insights one might expect in such a tight focus on his language. It also avoids the issue of Nauman's relation to other conceptual artists who use words extensively: she opts for Bakhtin and Benveniste, for example, over Ruscha or Holzer. Nauman courts extreme, even clinical, thinking, if only as a way to achieve practical and reliable experiences in art, as when Nauman comments on his use of puns: "I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning." So do these pieces, but that may be the point.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"Art historian Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the major interviews of the artist..."
— Prudence Peiffer, Library Journal
"This collection offers inquiring minds access to the artist's process."
— THE Magazine - Best Books of 2003
"...(Nauman) remains an enigma - which is exactly why a collection of writings and especially interviews is so valuable."
— Nick Stillman, The Brooklyn Rail
— Prudence Peiffer, Library Journal
"This collection offers inquiring minds access to the artist's process."
— THE Magazine - Best Books of 2003
"...(Nauman) remains an enigma - which is exactly why a collection of writings and especially interviews is so valuable."
— Nick Stillman, The Brooklyn Rail
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Fabulous insight, July 3 2007
By Steven Halle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews (Paperback)
Please Pay Attention Please offers fabulous insight into the ideas behind Bruce Nauman's art. With its focus on words and language, the interviews in the book help to explain Nauman's relationship with language and its origins, including some of his literary and philosophical interests. Nauman presents his art in a straightforward way, so readers can expect to find some redundancy from interview to interview. I found the book to be invaluable insight into one of America's most brilliant experimental artists.
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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avoid the essay, Mar 14 2009
By D. Armstrong - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words: Writings and Interviews (Paperback)
The interviews in this book are mildly fascinating although they don't reveal all that much about Nauman's practice. But I'd stay clear of the essay comprising the first 50 pages of the book unless you like art writing of this kind, the full pretentiousness of which I can't even convey without being able to reproduce the italics on words like "linguistic":"But I want to consider more closely the particular components constituting Get Out: specifically, the nature of its sounds. Not simply ambient noise or illegible cacophony, they are linguistic sounds - that is, words, given voice by the artist performing them for a tape recorder, changing the volume and speed of delivery with each repetition, "GET OUT OF MY MIND, GET OUT OF THIS ROOM,...get out of my mind, get out of this room...". Get Out, I propose, is a work about language."
I can think of an easier way to say this: "since there's nothing to look at and just an audio recording of someone speaking, I'd say language plays a role in this artwork". Alas, the vapidity takes less time to surface; I can see why she jazzed it up. A very clear "get out" to those of us who like art criticism without fatty nonsense like this.
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