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Infinite jest: Bruce Nauman & contemporary art as continuous process.

C: International Contemporary Art

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With the false hope of a firm foundation gone, with the world displaced by worlds that are but versions, with substance dissolved into function, and with the given acknowledged as taken, we face the questions of how worlds are made, tested, and known.

--Nelson Goodman, "Ways of Worldmaking" (1978)

It has been said again and again, becoming more of a truism with each evocation, that Bruce Nauman is one of the most influential living American artists. The variations on this theme are numerous. On the occasion of his 1995 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curator Robert Storr deemed him "arguably the most ...

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