Pacing the Cell: Walking and Productivity in the Work of Bruce Nauman
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Burgon, Ruth
Date published
2016
Abstract
After graduating from art school in the late 1960s Bruce Nauman found himself pacing his studio, unsure how to produce work as a professional artist. Out of this practice arose several films and videos recording these performances of studio pacing. This paper draws upon Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (1975, translated into English 1977) to shed light upon the aesthetic of confinement and incarceration found in Nauman’s use of the walking body in this early work.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
26
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection