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Article: Bruce Nauman.(sculpture exhibition)
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- Art Monthly
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Bruce Nauman Tate Liverpool May 19 to August 28
It is now commonplace to speak of Bruce Nauman in the same breath as we speak of Marcel Duchamp. It is not just a matter of his acknowledged debt to Duchamp, with whom he and other fellow West Coast artists such as John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha seem to share a special affinity, it is also a matter of his own influence on a subsequent generation of artists. It is now almost two decades since Jessica Diamond paid direct homage in her painting Yes Bruce Nauman in 1989, and since then Nauman's work, like Duchamp's, has gone beyond mere influence to enter the bloodstream of contemporary artists. The current 'Mapping the ...