Bruce Nauman

Record

1969

Vinyl record beside its album cover featuring a shadowy figure walking.
Vinyl record beside its album cover featuring a shadowy figure walking.

Not on view

Date
1969

Classification
Sound Work

Medium
Sound Track From First Violin Film; Violin Problem No. 2, Rhythmic Stamping (Four Rhythms in Preparation for Video Tape Problems). Jacket silkscreen with photographs of the artists from video tape of Stamping

Dimensions
Overall: 12 3/8 × 12 3/8in. (31.4 × 31.4 cm)

Accession number
74.47.4a-c

Edition
66/100, plus 10 lettered copies reserved for the artists and their collaborators

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Dr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Esman

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

API
artworks/5722

Part of a series:
7 Objects/69
7 works

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A wrinkled mauve shirt with short sleeves laid out flat on a white background.
Vinyl record beside its album cover featuring a shadowy figure walking.
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Bruce Nauman
51 works in the collection, 18 exhibitions

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