Bruce Nauman was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but his father's work as an engineer for General Electric meant that the family moved often.
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10 Facts About Bruce Nauman
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Bruce Nauman studied mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and art with William T Wiley and Robert Arneson at the University of California, Davis .
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Bruce Nauman has two children, Erik and Zoe, with his first wife, Judy Govan, and he has two grandchildren.
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Bruce Nauman has an interest in setting the metaphoric and descriptive functions of language against each other.
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Bruce Nauman seems to be fascinated by the nature of communication and language's inherent problems, as well as the role of the artist as supposed communicator and manipulator of visual symbols.
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Bruce Nauman uses neon to make allusions to the numinous connotations of light, similar to Mario Merz, who used neon to bring new life to assemblages of mundane objects.
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Since the mid-1980s, primarily working with sculpture and video, Bruce Nauman developed disturbing psychological and physical themes incorporating images of animal and human body parts, depicting sadistic allusions to games and torture together with themes of surveillance.
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Bruce Nauman's work has been included in documenta, the Whitney Biennial, Skulptur Projekte Munster and the Venice Biennale .
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Bruce Nauman holds honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.
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Bruce Nauman has cited as major influences the following writers, philosophers, and artists:.
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