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A work made of fiberglass and polyester resin.
© 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of fiberglass and polyester resin.

Date:

1965

Artist:

Bruce Nauman
American, born 1941

About this artwork

In the mid-1960s, Bruce Nauman began making sculptural casts, questioning several of the assumptions that have attended the process throughout its history. He rejected the traditional use of a mold in the production of a technically perfect cast object. In Nauman’s earliest extant sculptures of 1965—a group of 11 elongated, vaguely anthropomorphic fiberglass works—he described his process as “making a mold, taking the two halves and putting them together to make a hollow shape and turning it inside out.” In these early pieces, the artist was testing the notion of sculpture as a medium of solid, durable forms, thus turning the assumptions of sculpture, as well as the form, inside out.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Bruce Nauman

Title

Untitled

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.

1965

Medium

Fiberglass and polyester resin

Dimensions

243.8 × 25.4 × 12.7 cm (96 × 10 × 5 in.)

Credit Line

Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund

Reference Number

1978.155

Copyright

© 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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