162 Bruce Nauman, Going around the Corner Piece, 1970, four panels each...

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Description: Going around the Corner Piece

TitleGoing around the Corner Piece

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date1970

MaterialsFour panels forming the inner boundary of the circuit, four video cameras, four monitors, black-and-white and silent

DimensionsEach panel 120 1/8 x 240 1/8 in. (305 x 610 cm)

LocationMusée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cMaLBx

Accession numberAM 1988-954 (1)

SubjectsArt, American--20th centuryInstallations (Art)Found objects (Art)

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Conclusion. Arenas and Objects of Sculpture: Bourgeois

Alex Potts

The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist

The story of sculpture I have been telling has a kind of ending, though not one that resolves the obsessions circulating round the sculptural object that have been the central theme of this book. Sculpture is neither finished nor has it completely shed the conventions that once gave it its special, uneasy status in relation to painting. Over recent years, a new form of three-dimensional art has brought to an end the subordination of sculpture to painting, and opened up a more theatricalised …

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Alex Potts

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.357-379

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00156.014

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-14742&redirecttoanchor=13452

Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, Modern--AppreciationMinimal artSculpture, American--20th centuryWhiteread, Rachel, 1963-Bourgeois, Louise, 1911-2010Nauman, Bruce, 1941-

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