Study for Holograms

Prints and Drawings

1970

Bruce Nauman
American, born 1941

Derived from one of a series of photographs, this screenprint depicts the lower half of the artist’s face with exaggerated expressions. The focus is the subject’s mouth and its transformation by squeezing, stretching, and pulling. The performative imagery convey the body as a plastic form that can be manipulated. Fundamentally arbitrary, the facial gestures are expected to evoke an emotional response from the viewer. After photographing the faces, Nauman filmed them. He eventually decided to translate them into holograms, since he felt that the medium more suitably captured their sculptural form and meaning.

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Artist: Bruce Nauman
Title: Study for Holograms
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1970
Medium: Screenprint on Kromekote paper
Dimensions: 66 × 66 cm (26 × 26 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lannan Foundation
Reference Number: 1997.116.4

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