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Name: Burning Small Fires [ aka : urning all ires ]
Author: Bruce Nauman

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93 x 127 cm. unfolded ; 36 x 24 cm. folded
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Burning Small Fires [ aka : urning all ires ]

Bruce Nauman

description

Artist's book composed of a large folded poster adhered to paperboard covers. Features black-and-white photographs of burning pages of Edward Ruscha's artist's book Various Small Fires and Milk.

references

"Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 66.

"Bruce Nauman : Prints 1970 - 89, A Catalogue Raisonné" by Bruce Nauman, Christopher Cordes, Debbie Taylor, John Yau. New York / New York / Chicago, NY : Castelli Graphics / Lorence-Monk Gallery / Donald Young Gallery, 1989, p. 130.

"Bruce Nauman [Catalogue Raisonné]" by Bruce Nauman, Neal Benezra, Robert Storr, Paul Schimmel, Kathy Halbreich, Laurie Haycock Makela, Kristen McDougal. Minneapolis, MN : Walker Art Center, 1994

"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 338.

"Various Small Books : Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha" by Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, Hermann Zschiegner, Phil Taylor, Mark Rawlinson. Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2013, pp. 34 - 35.

"Bruce Nauman : Disappearing Acts" by Kathy Halbreich, Thomas Beard, Briony Fer, Nicolás Guagnini, Rachel Harrison, Ute Holl, Suzanne Hudson, Julia Keller, Liz Kotz, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Lord, Roxana Marcoci, Magnus Schaefer, Felicity Scott, Martina Venanzoni, Taylor Walsh, Jeffrey Weiss. New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, 2018, pp. 126.

[San Francisco], [CA]: [Bruce Nauman], 1968

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$15,000.00

Condition: Good / Fair. 1 cm. tear to head edge of recto and 6 mm. tear at spine. Bumping of corners and 5.3 cm. gentle bend to verso corner with a 1 cm. layer of paper on corner of verso peeled back. Light overall rubbing of covers and light rubbing of interior of covers. 9.5 cm. gentle fold to poster edge. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. Due to the high value of this work additional shipping charges will be required for all orders. Local pick-up in NYC also available on request.
[Object # 25481]

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