Bruce Nauman Pinch Neck 1968

Bruce Nauman Pinch Neck 1968

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• short
• film
• bruce
• nauman
• pinch
• neck
• 1968

[artregeous]

he is another byproduct of walletstreet another moral nihilst

[halbierman]

@fablan6 - I happen to truly like/appreciate Nauman's work. From my academic research of Nauman's art, I consider Pinch Neck as less a finished work and more of a study piece for his Hologram series that followed. Its an exploration of the malleability of the human body as canvas. If art is a process of discovery and expression of new ideas, than this piece, TO ME, fits the bill. If you do not appreciate the piece, that's cool. I respect your individual taste as different but equally valid.

[halbierman]

@fablan6 - Despite your unnecessarily belligerent response; Dislike and disinterest are valid emotional responses. Saying, "It does nothing for me," is still acknowledging an emotional state in response to the thing. Even a strongly negative response will encourage emotional or intellectual growth. The only art that truly fails is the art that produces no emotional or intellectual response at all. Some art does fail to move me. Some succeeds more than others.

[fablan6]

@halbierman So if I don't feel anything I am an idiot. Nice (sneaky) way of promoting (pushing) your opinion.

[fablan6]

@IWillCauseDamage I still believe that Michaelangelo's David or the Lacoon sculpture is much better in every possible way than anything Richard Serra ever made. Unless you use his walls for defensive walls during a raid or something...

[fablan6]

@IWillCauseDamage And I guess he is not so poor now.

[IWillCauseDamage]

@fablan6

Also, I have no idea about buying art and the status quo and all that nonsense that takes away from art itself. If you don't like a sculpture, that doesn't make the sculpture bad. This isn't to say that all art is good - no way! But a critique must be earnest and open-hearted. Otherwise, it becomes a debate about aesthetics which is entirely useless.

[IWillCauseDamage]

@fablan6

For the record, Bruce Nauman started making these videos not because he was overflowing with cash and nothing to do, but because he had absolutely no money, but still wanted a way to make art.

[fablan6]

@IWillCauseDamage Why do I have to endure all these? I can't get inspired at all from all that and I have a very strong feeling most people don't like them either, they just pretend they do in order to look trendy and cool and fit in with the rest. I hate the hypocrisy and how people buy paintings for example not because they like it but because the person who made it is very known... Is that the purpose that art serves in our era? Status quo? I'm not trying to look classy or whatever.

[IWillCauseDamage]

@fablan6

I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say.

It doesn't matter if it's a video of him just standing there doing nothing. If he has intent, then it is art.

You coming to my home and defecating on my pillow would constitute harrasment. Now, if you stood in a gallery and did it, and had a strong reason for doing it, then it would be art. Art that mocks other art is still art. Plenty of postminimalists and postmodernists were mocking their predecessors. So I say to you, go for it