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Title
Dance
or
Exercise
on the
Perimeter
of a
Square
,
film
still
.
Creator
Nauman, Bruce (American sculptor, photographer, and performance artist, born 1941)
Date
1967-1968
Cultural Context
American
North American
Theme
Performance art
Video art
Video recordings
Motion pictures (visual works)
Body art
Film stills
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Back views
Men (male humans)
Artists
Performance artists
Video artists
Filmmakers
Dance
Motion
Geometry
Square (shape)
Eye-level views
Subject
Performance art
Video recording
Film stills
Men
Artists
Backs (Anatomy)
Dance
Locomotion
Human locomotion
Geometry
Description
"
Carried
out
for the
camera
alone
,
Nauman's
performances
of the
late
1960s
often
dealt
with the
artist's
confinement
in his
studio
. This was
ironic
given
that
elsewhere
art
was
shrugging
off
its
traditional
solipsism
and
taking
to the
streets
. In a
sense
,
though
,
Nauman
was
testing
himself
against
humanist
models
of the
body
and
philosophical
introspection
. This
work
could
almost
be a
post-existential
satire
on
Leonardo
da
Vinci's
famous
humanist
emblem
of
man
circumscribed
by
geometry.
"
(Caption
,
p.154)
; "
Bruce
Nauman
,
based
in
Los
Angeles
, also
turned
to
film
(and
videotape)
,
although
more
as a
means
of
recording
a
sequence
of
performances
,
carried
out
in the
isolation
of his
studio
, that
examined
sculptural
,
conceptual
, and
bodily
interactions
. In
one
he
bounced
two
balls
between
the
floor
and
ceiling
of his
studio
.
Another
showed
him
walking
, with
hands
clasped
behind
his
neck
,
towards
and
away
from the
camera
along
an
uncomfortably
narrow
20-foot-long
corridor
. In a
third
he
staked
out
the
perimeter
of a
square
marked
on the
floor
with
balletic
steps
dictated
by a
metronome's
beat.
"
(Excerpt
,
p.154)
People Pictured
Nauman, Bruce, 1941-
Technique
Filmmaking
Work Type
Performance art
Body art
Video art
Film stills
Motion pictures
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.154, fig.78)
Rights
Photograph reproduced in Hopkins courtesy: Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, © ARS, NY, and DACS, London, 2000.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
827-40.jpg
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