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In Self-Portrait as a Fountain, Nauman questions the traditional role of the artist. He depicts himself shirtless, with raised arms and open palms, spewing an arc of water out of his pursed lips, in imitation of the nude statues customarily found in decorative fountains.
- Bruce Nauman | Whitney Museum of American Art
Bruce Nauman, 1941–. 30 works in the Whitney’s collection....
- Bruce Nauman, Self Portrait as a Fountain | Whitney Museum of American Art
Bruce Nauman, Self Portrait as a Fountain. Apr 29, 2021....
- Bruce Nauman | Whitney Museum of American Art
29 de abr. de 2021 · Bruce Nauman, Self Portrait as a Fountain. Apr 29, 2021. 0:00. Transcript. In Dave McKenzie: The Story I Tell Myself.
Recall that his Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1966, arrived just two years after the United States’ official desegregation of water fountains, which were never just innocent and deracinated modern objects. The self-portrait was, of course, a remake of Marcel Duchamp’s readymade Fountain, 1917.
His Self Portrait as a Fountain (1966) shows the artist spouting a stream of water from his mouth. At the end of the 1960s, Nauman began constructing claustrophobic and enclosed corridors and rooms that could be entered by visitors and which evoked the experience of being locked in and of being abandoned.
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In Bruce Nauman. His Self Portrait as a Fountain (1966; original photograph destroyed, reissued 1970) showed the artist spouting a stream of water from his mouth. Witty and irreverent, Nauman tested the idea of art as a stable vehicle of communication and the role of the artist as revelatory….
2 de jun. de 2021 · From early works such as “Self-Portrait as a Fountain” (1966-67), in which he captured himself spouting water from his mouth, to later pieces such as the video sequence “Clown Torture ...
