Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary

The publication "Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary" poses the question ofNauman's contemporaneity and situates his oeuvre in the context of artisticpositions and art theoretical discourses from the last decades. Sixin-depth essays by renowned authors illuminate Nauman's work, such asin regard to its inherent humour or the practice of endless repetition. Thevolume of texts examines the mirror image and rear-view figures, forexample, along with questions of contemporary subject constitution,digital image production and cybernetics. Theories of labour and globalisationare discussed in reference to Nauman's creative output, as well asthe connections between Nauman's work and models of behaviourism,software and computer theory, or topology. The various essays considerNauman's oeuvre in relation to diverse artistic positions such as those ofEd Atkins, Erwin Wurm, Francis Al s, Fischli / Weiss, Dara Birnbaum,Yvonne Rainer or René Magritte. In so doing, the volume of texts seeks tocounter the tendency to cast the artist as an outstanding solitary figureof postmodernism and opens up manifold references