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    Bruce Nauman
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    • Violins Violence Silence
      1981-1982
      Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frame
      60 1/2 × 66 1/2 × 6 inches
      Oliver-Hoffmann Family Collection, Chicago

      Courtesy Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

      © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    • Vices and Virtues
      Installation views
      1983-1988
      Neon tubing and clear glass tubing, mounted on aluminum support grid
      Height 84 inches

      Purchase with funds from the Staurt Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts

      The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego.

      Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York

      © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    • Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care
      1984
      Celotex, steel grate, yellow lights
      408 × 576 × 366
      Flick Collection

      Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York

      © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    • One Hundred Live and Die
      1984
      Neon tubing mounted on four metal monoliths
      118 × 132 1/4 × 21 inches
      Collection Fukake Publishing Co., Ltd., Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan

      Courtesy Sperone Westwater, New York

      © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    • Good Boy, Bad Boy
      Detail
      1985
      Two color video monitors, two videotape players, two videotapes (color, sound)
      Dimensions variable

      Edition of 40

      Courtesy Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

      © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    • Clown Torture
      Installation view
      1987
      Four color video monitors, four speakers, four videotape players, two video projectors, four videotapes (color, sound)
      Dimensions variable

      Courtesy Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

      © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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