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Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is a contemporary United
States|American artist. His pluralistic practice
spans a broad range of media including sculpture,
photography, neon, video, drawing and performance.

Much of his work is characterised by an interest
in language which often manifests itself in a
playful, mischievous manner. For example, the neon
'Run From Fear- Fun From Rear', or the photograph
'Bound To Fail' which literalises the title phrase
and shows the artist's arms tied behind his back.
There are however, very serious concerns at the
heart of the work. Nauman seems to be interested
in the nature of communication and the inherent
problems of language, as well as the role of the
artist as supposed communicator and manipulator of
visual language. 

He is widely acknowledged as one of the most
important living artists.


Some of his better-known works include:

*Clown Torture - in separate stacked video
screens, a clown screaming "No" repeatedly, a
clown telling an annoying child's joke, a clown
balancing goldfish bowls, and a clown sitting on a
public toilet.
*Vices and Virtues - Atop a laboratory building at
University of California San Diego, neon signs
seven feet tall, alternating the seven vices and
seven virtues: FAITH/LUST, HOPE/ENVY,
CHARITY/SLOTH, PRUDENCE/PRIDE, JUSTICE/AVARICE,
TEMPERANCE/GLUTTONY, and FORTITUDE/ANGER.
*The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing
Mystic Truths - a spiraling neon sign with this
slogan.
*Setting a Good Corner - looping video of the
artist setting a corner fencepost.
*World Peace - five projectors or video players
displaying four women and a man each speaking
simultaneous monologues about world peace.

==External link==
*http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/nauman/
*http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/arti
sts/record.html?record=1
*http://www.vibrofiles.com/exhibition_nauman.php
SOUND INSTALLATIONRaw Materials at Tate Modern