World Peace (Received)
- Artist
- Bruce Nauman, American, born 1941
- Depicted
- Brooke Alderson, American,
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, American (born China), born 1947,
Jerry Jenkins, American,
Mary Beth Markowski, American,
Dale Mason, American,
David McIntosh, American,
Bernard Pomerance, American, 1940–2017 - Date
- 1996
- Material
- Video discs, monitors, video disc players, switchers, remote control, stool, and utility carts
- Classification
- Media arts
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- dimensions variable (installed: 126 in. diameter)
- Credit Line
- Museum Shop Fund and funds given by Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Bryant Jr., the Henry L. and Natalie Edison Freund Charitable Trust, the Siteman Contemporary Art Fund, the Eliza McMillan Trust, Anabeth Calkins and John Weil, the Contemporary Art Society, Mrs. Joan B. Bailey, the Honorable and Mrs. Thomas F. Eagleton, Mrs. Gail K. Fischmann, Mrs. Eleanor J. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Thomas Jr., Gary Wolff, Mr. and Mrs. David Mesker, Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg, Mrs. Janet M. Weakley, and the Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
- Rights
- © Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY
- Object Number
- 33:1997
NOTES
World Peace (Received), an installation piece made over thirty years into Bruce Nauman's career, considers the possibilities and limits of communication. Five video monitors are placed around a stool, inviting visitors to the gallery to sit, to listen, and to watch the monitors, each of which features a different speaker. The people seen on the monitors (an actress, a playwright, a painter, a ranch hand, a poet, a professional translator for the deaf, and a deaf actress) speak or sign variations of the following script: "I'll talk, you'll listen," "You'll talk to them, they'll listen to you." The declarative mode of the piece may prompt viewers to ask their own questions: How do we sound to others? Who is speaking? Who is listening? Often dismissed in our culture as an instrument of shallow comfort, television is used in this work as a vehicle of abrasive and challenging speech.
Provenance
- 1997
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1997 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Sperone Westwater [1]
Notes:
[1] Invoice dated August 21, 1997 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Commitee Meeting of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, Septmber 4, 1997.
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1997 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Sperone Westwater [1]
Notes:
[1] Invoice dated August 21, 1997 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Commitee Meeting of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, Septmber 4, 1997.