- Hardcover: 76 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; illustrated edition edition (14 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262140829
- ISBN-13: 978-0262140829
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 18 x 2.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,329,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
| |||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
"Kraynak has performed a great service in compiling all of the major interviews of the artist from 1965 to the present...An essential research tool for 20th century art acolytes." - Prudence Peiffer, Library Journal; "The 14 interviews that make up the bulk of this book reinforce [the] enigmatic portrait of an artist who is attempting to be candid while retaining his mystery....For those looking for a window into conceptual art, Please Pay Attention Please is a rewarding and accessible point of entry." - Francis Raven, Rain Taxi"
Product Description
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bruce Nauman has refrained from participating in the critical discourse surrounding his own work. In contrast to Nauman's reputation for silence, however, from the beginning of his career, the incorporation of language has been a central feature of his art. This collection takes as its starting point the seeming paradox of an artist of so few words who produces an art of so many words. Please Pay Attention Please contains all of Nauman's major interviews from 1965 to 2001, as well as a comprehensive body of his writings, including instructions and proposal texts, dialogues transcribed from audio-video works, and prose texts written specifically for installation sculptures. Where relevant, the texts are accompanied by illustrations of the artworks for which they were composed. In the critical essay that serves as the book's introduction, the editor investigates Nauman's art in relation to the linguistic turn in art practices of the 1960s - understanding language through the speech-act - and its legacy in contemporary art.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
2 reviews
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Fabulous insight
3 July 2007
Format: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
avoid the essay
15 Mar 2009
Format: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.
"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.
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
