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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Bruce Nauman
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Title
- Untitled
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1965
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Medium
- Fiberglass and polyester resin
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Dimensions
- 243.8 × 25.4 × 12.7 cm (96 × 10 × 5 in.)
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Credit Line
- Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund
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Reference Number
- 1978.155
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Copyright
- © 2018 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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