Bruce Nauman / Clea Rsky [Clear Sky]
NAUMAN Bruce (Fort Wayne, Indiana 1941)
no place [Los Angeles], no publisher, no date [but 1968], 30,4x30,4 cm, paperback, [12] pp., artist’s book, typographic cover; 10 full page colour photographs depicting the sky above Los Angeles. Copy signed in pen by the artist, unlike the similar book, published in 1970 under the title “LAAir”, where the signature is a printed facsimile of the original. Unspecified print run. First edition.
[Bibliography: Bury 2015: pag. 50 with illustration and pag. 180; Delcroix 1985: pag. 88; Lailach 2005: pag. 145, illustration n. 102].
NAUMAN Bruce (Fort Wayne, Indiana 1941)
no place [Los Angeles], no publisher, no date [but 1968], 30,4x30,4 cm, paperback, [12] pp., artist’s book, typographic cover; 10 full page colour photographs depicting the sky above Los Angeles. Copy signed in pen by the artist, unlike the similar book, published in 1970 under the title “LAAir”, where the signature is a printed facsimile of the original. Unspecified print run. First edition.
[Bibliography: Bury 2015: pag. 50 with illustration and pag. 180; Delcroix 1985: pag. 88; Lailach 2005: pag. 145, illustration n. 102].
NAUMAN Bruce (Fort Wayne, Indiana 1941)
no place [Los Angeles], no publisher, no date [but 1968], 30,4x30,4 cm, paperback, [12] pp., artist’s book, typographic cover; 10 full page colour photographs depicting the sky above Los Angeles. Copy signed in pen by the artist, unlike the similar book, published in 1970 under the title “LAAir”, where the signature is a printed facsimile of the original. Unspecified print run. First edition.
[Bibliography: Bury 2015: pag. 50 with illustration and pag. 180; Delcroix 1985: pag. 88; Lailach 2005: pag. 145, illustration n. 102].
“B. Nauman, d’autre part, dans deux de ses livres, donne une suite de pages sans image aucune, constituée seulement de diverses nuances de bleu pour l’un (Clearsky, 1969) et de diverses couleurs savamment dégradées pour l’autre (LAAir). Dans le premier, il semble être question de la couleur changeante du ciel, dans le second quelque chose aussi se raconte mais pour savoir quoi, il faut être capable de décrypter le titre: «Ce n’est pas un acronyme duchampien,détendes-vous et vous y êtes! Un livre d’un pied de côte qui traite des effets del’automobile» (Art-rite n°14, 1977, pp. 29)
