Nauman

Bruce Nauman
Self Portrait as a Fountain
1966
dye transfer print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bruce Nauman
Eye-Level Piece
1966
painted cardboard
Dallas Museum of Art

Bruce Nauman
From Hand to Mouth
1967
wax
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
The true artist helps the world
by revealing mystic truths
1967
neon
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Bruce Nauman
Dance or Exercise on the Perimeter of a Square
(Square Dance)
1967-68
film still
Art Institute of Chicago

Elayne Varian
Bruce Nauman
ca. 1969
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Perfect Door - Perfect Odor - Perfect Rodo
1972
neon
Dallas Museum of Art

Bruce Nauman
SUGAR / RAGUS
1973
lithograph and screenprint
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Gianfranco Gorgoni
Bruce Nauman
1975
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Bruce Nauman
Malice
ca. 1980
neon
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Diamond Africa with Chair Tuned D E A D
1981
steel and cast iron
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Nauman
Human Nature / Life Death
1983
neon
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Nauman
White Anger - Red Danger - Yellow Peril - Black Death
1984
acrylic, pastel and collage on paper
Art Institute of Chicago

Bruce Nauman
Self Portrait
1990
drypoint
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Installation of Animal Pyramid at Des Moines Art Center
ca. 1990
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Hand Circle
1995
Polaroid
(wax patterns for bronze sculpture)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Bruce Nauman
Hand Circle
1996
bronze
Indianapolis Museum of Art

from Horace His Art of Poetry, Imitated in English

Should some ill Painter in a wild design

To a mans Head an Horses shoulders joyn,

Or Fishes Tail to a fair Womans Waste,

Or draw the Limbs of many a different Beast, 

Ill matched, and with as motly Feathers drest;

If you by chance were to pass by his Shop;

Could you forbear from laughing at the Fop,

And not believe him whimsical or mad?

Credit me, Sir, that Book is quite as bad,

As worthy laughter, which throughout is filled

With monstrous inconsistencies, more vain and wild

Than sick mens Dreams, whose neither head, nor tail,

Nor any parts in due proportion fall. 

– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by John Oldham (1681)