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...left ear and melted her breasts. More than a year after the attack, the once full-lipped, large-eyed, long-haired beauty is unrecognizable. She breathes with difficulty. "I don't look human anymore," she says. "My face is a prison for me." When four-year-old son Nauman first visited his mother in the crowded public hospital where for three agonizing months she fought for her life, he ran away crying: "This is not my mother...
...featured such American greats as Richard Serra, Robert Ryman, Agnes Martin and Cy Twombly, Phillips and Neri have placed more emphasis on newly emerging artists. This generational shift seems exceptionally welcome in light of the rather uncompelling contributions by the '97 Biennial's more well-known practitioners--including Bruce Nauman, Francesco Clemente and Dan Graham. A notable exception, Ilya Kabakov is one of the few older artists in the current exhibition whose seniority is reflected in the quality of his work. Perhaps overly ambitious for its context, his wistfull installation of a crumbling hospital ward is designed to treat...
...great influence on other artists. The deadpan stripes of his Flag, 1954-55, become the pinstripes of Frank Stella's black paintings in 1959, and his deliberateness, making the picture up in advance instead of discovering it in the act of painting, lies behind much process art. As Bruce Nauman put it, "Johns was the first artist"--well, in New York in the 1950s, anyway--"to put some intellectual distance between himself and his physical activity of making paintings." His work has always spoken of planning, not spontaneity; of the recycled image (his own included), not the unwilled apparition...
Robert Hughes' review "Being a Nuisance," about Bruce Nauman's retrospective show, was nauseating [ART, April 24]. We have come to the Gotterdammerung of art, proved by Hughes' description of Nauman's work Black Balls: ". eight minutes of Nauman's fingers rubbing black pigment in close-up on his scrotum." We have evolved from the excellent sculpture of the Greeks and Romans to Renoir and other French painters-to this. Certainly the Dark Ages are upon...
...Bruce Nauman exhibition was co-curated by Neal Benezra of the Hirshhorn Museum and Kathy Halbreich of the Walker Art Center. Although Nauman appears as his own subject in a number of his works, the clown in Clown Torture is not the artist, as Hughes wrote. Also, the sculpture From Hand to Mouth, a part of the Hirshhorn's collection, is not a cast of body parts of the artist but of his first wife. And finally, the parallel between that sculpture and Duchamp's With My Tongue in My Cheek is noted in Benezra's catalog essay, though...