NAUMAN, Bruce

Since his entry into installation art in the early 1970s, Nauman's works have been the most aggressive critiques by an artist of the standard expectations people have for art. His arrangements of constructed corridors leading nowhere, videos of visual static and of shrieking clowns, and casts of oddly combined and seemingly mutated body parts, have been devised to frustrate typical expectations of clearly defined art objects that offer some form of information and enlightenment. However, as critiques,...