The most comprehensive collection to date of the artist Bruce Nauman’s writings plus all of his major interviews from 1965 to 2001. Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and text-based works to elaborate multipart installations incorporating sound, video recording and monitors, and architectural structures. Nauman’s work is often interpreted in terms of movements and mediums, including performance, postminimalism, process, and conceptual art, thereby emphasizing its apparent eclecticism. But what is often overlooked is that underlying these seemingly disparate artistic tendencies are conceptual continuities, one of which is an investigation of the nature of language.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership (missing dust jacket).

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren, 1969, a groundbreaking exhibition organized by Wim Beeren that is still considered one of the most innovative surveys of new art from that decade. Including the artists Giovanni Anselmo, Walter De Maria, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Richard Serra, Neil Jenney, Michael Heizer, Ben d’Armagnac, Marinus Boezem, Bill Bollinger, Michael Buthe, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Gerrit Dekker, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Pieter Engels, Barry Flanagan, Bernhard Höke, Paolo Icaro, Immo Jalass, Olle Kåks, Hans Koetsier, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Mario & Marisa Merz, Bruce Nauman, Panamarenko, Emilio Prini, Bob Ryman, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Lawrence Weiner, Gilberto Zorio, Joseph Beuys, Douglas Huebler, Rafael Ferrer, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Frank Viner Engels, Roelof Louw, Bruce McLean, Panamarenko, Emilio Prini, Gerrit Dekker, Hans Koetsier.

Designed by Wim Crouwel & Jolijn van de Wouw. SM Cat no.457

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

For decades, Maurizio Nannucci has preserved exhibition invitation cards. The collection comprises both invitations and announcements from artists whose approaches to art are close to his own. Yet many also come from wider circles of artist friends, colleagues, galleries, and museums, allowing a chronology of relationships and information exchanges to emerge. The selection in this volume makes visible how this kind of communication – often conceived by the artists themselves – superimposes the purely informative value of the printed matter with the freedom of artistic expression; evidence of a holistic practice where such cards can become artworks in their own right.

Featuring the work of Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Jannis Kounellis, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Naumann, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Keith Sonnier, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

On the levels of both form and content, Breath Holding Spell unmistakably harks back to Bruce Nauman’s 1970 artist’s book LA AIR, whose eight monochrome pages present photographs of the atmosphere, illustrating the widely varying hues of the air over L.A.

It inspired this artist’s book by Nairy Baghramian, which features variations on a single photographic motif: no more than a cropped detail of a tightly packed standing crowd of people is visible in Tight Sluice. Monochrome pages that reprise the colors of their attire appear in rhythmical alternation with the pictures.

The artist has autographed the books on the back cover, again quoting Nauman, though his signature was a printed facsimile.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition 11 Los Angeles Artists, 30 September–7 November, 1971 at the Hayward Gallery, London. The exhibition featured the work of a ‘small diverse group of artists’, many of them only recently out of art school. Some of these younger artists, including John Altoon, Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, John McLaughlin, Bruce Nauman, Ed Ruscha, Ken Price and William Wegman, were little known in the US outside a small number of alternative galleries.