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Title
My
Last
Name
Exaggerated
Fourteen
Times
Vertically
.
Creator
Nauman, Bruce (American sculptor, photographer, and performance artist, born 1941)
Date
1967
Cultural Context
American
North American
Theme
Sculpture (visual work)
Neon
Neon sculpture
Neon lamps
Electric discharge lamps
Electric lamps (lighting device components)
Lamps (lighting devices)
Lighting devices
Lighting
Electric lighting
Light bulbs
Signatures (names)
Identity
Language (verbal communication)
Anamorphoses
Subject
Sculpture
Electric signs
Electric lighting
Lighting
Lamps
Light bulbs
Names
Artists' signatures
Language
Anamorphic images
Description
"This
relates
to
another
work
of
1968
,
My
Name
As
Though
It
Were
Written
on the
Surface
of the
Moon
, also in
neon
. The
latter
,
slightly
more
legibly
,
reads
:
'bbbbbbrrrrrruuuuuucccccceeeeee'
.
It
has been
suggested
that
it
may
have been a
response
to
photographs
sent
back
to
earth
by
five
lunar
orbiters
launched
by the
US
between
1955
and
1968.
"
(Caption
,
p.155)
; "
Nauman's
interrogation
of his
bodily
identity
owed
much
to a
heady
cocktail
of
reading
.
Samuel
Beckett
and the
Gestalt
psychology
and
phenomenology
that had
affected
[Robert]
Morris
were
formative
influences
.
So
was the
philosophy
of
[Ludwig]
Wittgenstein
, with its
skepticism
as to
language's
ability
to
broker
between
'public'
and
'private'
systems
of
meaning
. In a
sequence
of
sculptural
objects
,
partly
indebted
to
[Marcel]
Duchamp
,
whose
example
for
West
Coast
artists
was
particularly
vivid
after
his
retrospective
in
Pasadena
in
1963
,
Nauman
sent
language's
metaphorical
and
descriptive
functions
spinning
into
collision
. Its
role
as
name
(and
identity)
was
submitted
to the
principle
of
anamorphosis
in a
work
consisting
of
neon
tubing
,
My
Last
Name
Exaggerated
Fourteen
Times
Vertically
, of
1967
.
Stretching
out
the
implications
of his
signature
with the
detachment
of a
laboratory
investigator
Nauman
succinctly
articulated
a
male
artist's
self-alienation
in
direct
counterpoint
to what has been
said
about
[Eva]
Hesse's
or
[Louise]
Bourgeois's
ability
to
metaphoricize
their
bodies/identities
within
their
objects.
"
(Excerpt
,
pp
.
154-155)
Material
Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame
Glass (material)
Tubes (object forms)
Neon
Neon lamps
Electric lamps (lighting device components)
Electric discharge lamps
Measurements
160 x 83.8 x 5.1 cm
Technique
Glassworking
Work Type
Sculpture
Neon sculpture
Repository
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, New York)
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.155, fig.79)
Rights
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Panza Collection. Extended Loan. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy Sperone Westwater, 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
827-39.jpg
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