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Bruce Nauman

Raw War

1969

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Bruce Nauman

Raw War

1969

Physical Qualities Neon, glass tubing, wire, transformer, and sequencer, 6 1/2 x 17 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (16.5 x 43.5 x 6.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Leo Castelli, New York
Object Number 1982.148
Sequence is: Dead silent R A WAR
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1982; from Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; from the artist
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Ho, Melissa ed. Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2019
Bailey, Stuart, Angie Keefer, David Reinfurt, eds. Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language. Bulletins of The Serving Library #3. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press; New York, NY: Dexter Sinister, 2012, unpaged.

Artist

Bruce Nauman

1940–2000

born Fort Wayne, IN 1941
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1944–1954
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