Description: This book investigates the audio/visual works created by American artist Bruce Nauman (b.1941) from 1965 to the present. A particular attention is given to sensual perception and the limits of epistemological equipment. By focusing on contraptions o
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"Adi Louria Hayon's Bruce Nauman offers a deeply researched examination of the artist's oeuvre, bringing focus to his unique engagement with philosophical scepticism. From failure, delay and error to repetition and breakdown, Louria Hayon astutely positions the work of Nauman, as well as related art of the 1960s and 70s, as performative interruptions of sense-making. Disclosing the praxis of doubt as an aesthetic experience the book includes insightful readings into philosophies of logic and mind, mathematics, and deconstruction. Louria Hayon eloquently shows how Nauman's performative scepticism continually exposes a productive gap between perception and representation, knowledge and the real; a manner of making art and a mode of being." - Brandon LaBelle, artistic director, The Listening Biennial.