Editing Bruce Nauman (section)

===Selected works===
[[File:Center of the Universe, University of New Mexico.jpg|thumb|right|Center of the Universe at the [[University of New Mexico]]]]
Some of Nauman's best-known works include:

*''A Rose Has No Teeth'' (1966) — Lead, 7.5 x 8 x 2.25 in. 
*''Eleven Color Photographs'' (1966-1967/1970) — Portfolio of eleven color photographs, various sizes, all approx. 19.75 x 23 in. edition of 8 Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 
*''Art Make-Up'' (1967) — video in which Nauman slowly covers his face and upper torso with white, then pink, then green, then black makeup, until by the end he looks like a negative image<ref name="Complex Cowboy: Bruce Nauman"/> Initially the films were intended to be projected simultaneously on four walls of a room. Although this form of installation was never realized for this piece, Nauman employed the method for subsequent film and video installations.<ref>[http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=605 Bruce Nauman, ''Art Make-Up'' (1967)] [[Electronic Arts Intermix]], New York.</ref>
*''The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths'' (1967)<ref name="Philadelphia Museum of Art">{{cite web|title=Philadelphia Museum of Art on PBS|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/31965.html|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – a spiraling neon sign with this slogan.
*''Flesh to White to Black to Flesh''  (1968) 51 minutes b&w, sound. Nauman puts on white makeup, then black makeup, then returns to his ordinary skin color.<ref name="New American Library"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nauman|first1=Bruce|title=Flesh to White to Black to Flesh|url=http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=2939|website=Electronic Arts Intermix|access-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref>
*''Burning Small Fires'' (1969) — [[artist's book]] for which Nauman burned [[Ed Ruscha]]'s book ''Various Small Fires and Milk'' (1964), photographed it, and edited a book of his own.<ref>Colin Westerbeck (February 11, 2007), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-11-tm-photosynthesis06-story.html Burning Small Fires: Artist book by Bruce Nauman (1968)] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref>
*''Wall-Floor Positions'' (1969) — Videotape, black and white, sound, 60 mins. to be repeated continuously. 
*''Pacing Upside Down''(1969) 60 minutes b&w. With his arms held over his head, hands crossed, Nauman is moving jerkily around a perimeter defined by a square drawn on the studio floor, filmed by a fixed camera, placed upside down.<ref name="New American Library">{{cite book|last1=Price|first1=Jonathan|title=Video Visions: A Medium Discovers Itself|date=1977|publisher=New American Library|location=New York|asin=B00ECDT4V2|url=http://museumzero.blogspot.com/2014/07/bruce-nauman-exposes-his-body-early.html|access-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nauman|first1=Bruce|title=Pacing Upside Down|url=http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1651|website=Electronic Arts Intermix|access-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref>
*''Audio Video Piece for London, Ontario'' (1969–70) - Nauman uses a closed-circuit television, a camera, and an audio recording to confuse sensory perception as the television broadcasts images and rhythmic noises of an adjoining room.<ref name="Bruce Nauman 1990">[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/bruce-nauman--may-21-2015 Bruce Nauman: Selected Works from 1967 to 1990, May 21 - August 1, 2015] [[Gagosian Gallery]], Paris.</ref> 
*''LA AIR'' (1970)<ref name="LAAIR on ubuweb">{{cite web|title=LAAIR on ubuweb|url=http://www.ubu.com/historical/nauman/index.html|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – A soft-cover [[artist's book]], featuring only 10 color illustrations [photographs] of the polluted Los Angeles skyline. It complements and extends the sky-blue pages of Nauman's earlier book ''CLEA RSKY'' (1968–69).<ref>[http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2008/namedelements/ Elements and Unknowns, September 4 – November 23, 2008] [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York.</ref> No text.
*''Henry Moore bound to fail, back view'' (1967–1970)<ref name="Henry Moor bound to fail- on artnet">{{cite web|title=Henry Moor bound to fail- on artnet|url=http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=CC9226DEEA6DFFC1|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – cast wax relief of a man's back with arms tied by ropes.<ref>Ken Johnson (November 15, 2002), [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/15/arts/art-in-review-bruce-nauman.html Bruce Nauman] ''The New York Times''.</ref> In 2001, this work sold for $9 million at auction. This is one of the highest prices paid for Nauman's work.
*''Please/Pay/Attention/Please'' (1973) - Collage and letraset, 27.5 x 27.5 in.
*''Elke allowing the floor to rise up over her face'' (1973) 39 minutes color sound. She lies on her back, turns over, moves around as the video makes her seem to sink below the floor.<ref name="New American Library"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nauman|first1=Bruce|title=Elke allowing the floor to rise up over her face|url=http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=2269|website=Electronic Arts Intermix|access-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref>
*''Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up, and Face Down'' (1973) 60 minutes.  Tony lies there as if dead, then slowly wakes up, as the editing makes him seem to sink into the floor.<ref name="New American Library"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Nauman|first1=Bruce|title=Tony Sinking into the Floor, Face Up, and Face Down|url=http://www.eai.org/title.htm?id=1055|website=Electronic Arts Intermix|access-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref>
* ''Center of the Universe'' (1988) - "unadorned concrete tunnels extending outward from a plaque in the middle and one reaching up toward the blue New Mexico sky."<ref>{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Mary Beth |title=UNM campus holds the Center of the Universe |url=https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-campus-holds-the-center-of-the-universe |access-date=14 August 2024 |publisher=University of new Mexico |date=13 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240814130743/https://news.unm.edu/news/unm-campus-holds-the-center-of-the-universe |archive-date=14 August 2024}}</ref> At the [[University of New Mexico]], Albuquerque.
*''Good Boy Bad Boy'' (1985) — Two video monitors, two videotape players, two videotapes (color, sound). dimensions variable. 
*''Clown Torture'' (1987)<ref name="Clown torture on vimeo">{{cite web|title=Clown torture on vimeo|url=http://vimeo.com/20303026|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – in four separate stacked video screens, a clown screaming "No" repeatedly, a clown telling an annoying children's joke, a clown balancing goldfish bowls, and a clown sitting on a public toilet.
*''Vices and Virtues'' (1988)<ref name="Vices and Virtues on PBS">{{cite web|title=Vices and Virtues on PBS|website=[[PBS]] |url=https://www.pbs.org/art21/images/bruce-nauman/vices-and-virtues-installation-views-1983-1988|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – Atop the Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory on the campus of the [[University of California, San Diego]] as part of the [[Stuart Collection]] of public art: neon signs seven feet tall, alternating the seven vices and seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY, CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE, TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER.<ref>[http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/artists/nauman.shtml Bruce Nauman, ''Vices and Virtues'' (1988)] [[University of California, San Diego]].</ref>
*''Learned Helplessness in Rats (Rock and Roll Drummer)'' (1988)<ref name="Learned Helplessness in Rats (Rock and Roll Drummer) in MoMA">{{cite web|title=Learned Helplessness in Rats (Rock and Roll Drummer) in MoMA|url=http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=81490|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – Plexiglass maze, closed circuit video camera, video projector, two videotape players, two monitors, and two videotapes. Collection of MOMA.
*''Animal Pyramid'' (1989) – a stack of seventeen taxidermy molds rising to twelve feet.<ref name="Bruce Nauman 1990"/> 
*''World Peace'' (1996) – five projectors or video players displaying four women and a man each speaking simultaneous monologues about world peace and endlessly rehearsing the words 'We'll talk – They'll listen / You'll talk – We'll listen / They'll talk – You'll listen'.<ref name="Peace- in Sperone Westwater">{{cite web|title=Peace in Sperone Westwater|url=http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/exhibits/record.html?record=40|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105084140/http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/exhibits/record.html?record=40|archive-date=2011-11-05|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/unilever-series-bruce-nauman-raw-materials The Unilever Series: Bruce Nauman - Raw Materials, 12 October 2004 – 2 May 2005] [[Tate Modern]], London</ref>
*''Stadium Piece'' (1998–99) – outdoor M-shaped staircase, part of the [[Western Washington University Public Sculpture Collection]]
*''Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor)'' (1999)<ref name="Setting a good corner- youtube video">{{cite web|title=Setting a good corner- youtube video| website=[[YouTube]] | date=8 December 2009 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9Y32s5ECA| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/OC9Y32s5ECA| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|access-date=2012-03-20}}{{cbignore}}</ref> – looping video of the artist setting a corner fencepost.
*''Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage)'' (2001)<ref name="Mapping the Studio 1">{{cite web|title=Mapping the Studio 1|url=http://diaart.org/exhibitions/main/29|access-date=2014-05-22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012035042/http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/29|archive-date=2009-10-12}}</ref> – multiple projections record nocturnal activity by the artist's cat and various mice in his studio over the summer of 2000.
*''Raw Materials'' (2004)<ref name=Tate>{{cite web|title=Tate |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/nauman/ |access-date=2012-03-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111144239/http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/nauman/ |archive-date=2012-01-11 }}</ref> – sound installation displayed in the Turbine Hall of [[Tate Modern]],<ref>[[Adrian Searle]] (October 12, 2004), [https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/oct/12/1 Inside the mind of Bruce Nauman] ''[[The Guardian]]''.</ref>  bringing together 21 audio pieces made over a period of 40 years.<ref>Richard Dorment (October 13, 2004), [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3625373/Sounds-to-make-the-mind-race.html Sounds to make the mind race] ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.</ref>
*''One Hundred Fish Fountain'' (2005) comprises hollow bronze fish, cast from catfish, bass, whitefish and other species, suspended by wires from the ceiling at different heights, as if swimming in deep water. Below them is a broad, shallow basin, cobbled together from rubber sheeting, which measures 25 feet by 28 feet, from which water is pumped up to each fish through a hose connected to its belly.<ref>Ken Johnson (August 9, 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/arts/design/bruce-nauman-one-hundred-fish-fountain.html Bruce Nauman: ''One Hundred Fish Fountain''] ''The New York Times''.</ref> The environmentally scaled sculpture all but fills the room, allowing just a narrow track for the viewer to edge around the perimeter, in much the same way as Nauman's early corridor works first invited then restricted movement.<ref>[http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/bruce-nauman--july-30-2012 Bruce Nauman: One Hundred Fish Fountain, July 30 - August 24, 2012] [[Gagosian Gallery]], New York.</ref>
*''Untitled "Leave the Land Alone"'' (1969/2009)<ref name=Untitled>{{cite web|title=Untitled "Leave the Land Alone|url=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2493/4033487240_5503598765.jpg|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – premiered as a public skywriting project over Pasadena for the Armory Center for the Arts in September 2009, initiated by curator [[Andrew Berardini]]. The plane circled around and rewrote the brief sentence "Leave the Land Alone" several times. This work connects with LAAIR as well as lambastes the [[land art]] movement<ref>{{cite web|url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/08/bruce-naumans-airborne-ambitions.html|title=Bruce Nauman's airborne ambitions|date=6 August 2009}}</ref>
*''Days/Giorni'' (2009)<ref name="Days in MoMa">{{cite web|title=Days in MoMa|url=http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1060|access-date=2012-03-20}}</ref> – two rows of wafer-thin white speakers that played 14 recordings of seven people chanting the days of the week, either in English (“Days”) or Italian (“Giorni”).<ref name="Listen: Can You Hear the Space">[[Roberta Smith]] (December 17, 2009), [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18nauman.html Listen: Can You Hear the Space?] ''The New York Times''.</ref> Purchased in a 50–50 deal by the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in New York and Maja Oeri, a MoMA trustee whose Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation is at the [[Schaulager]] in Basel, Switzerland.<ref name="nytimes.com">Carol Vogel (July 7, 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/design/2-continents-1-work-and-31-hand-positions.html?_r=1&ref=design 2 Continents, 1 Work and 31 Hand Positions] ''The New York Times''.</ref>
*''For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and fingers)'' (2010)<ref name=LACMA>{{cite web|title=LACMA|url=http://www.lacma.org/art/installation/bruce-nauman-beginners|access-date=2012-03-20|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505132054/http://lacma.org/art/installation/bruce-nauman-beginners|archive-date=2012-05-05}}</ref> – video depicting Nauman's hands enacting all the possible combinations of the four fingers and thumb – 31 positions in all – accompanied by his verbal enumeration of each finger combination. Purchased in a 50–50 deal by [[François Pinault]] and [[LACMA]].<ref name="nytimes.com"/>
*''For Beginners (instructed piano)'' (2010) — sound piece featuring a tentative piano solo by the artist-musician [[Terry Allen (artist)|Terry Allen]].<ref>[[Roberta Smith]] (December 9, 2010), [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/arts/design/10galleries-BRUCENAUMAN_RVW.html Bruce Nauman: 'For Children/For Beginners'] ''The New York Times''.</ref>