{"product_id":"clea-rsky-clear-sky","title":"Clea Rsky [Clear Sky]","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBruce Nauman’s artist’s books often appear deceptively simple, yet they are constructed around carefully orchestrated mysteries and ambiguities. “At times cryptic, at times funny, and always intellectually and emotionally challenging, Nauman touches the raw nerves of contemporary life while making private feelings and hidden doubt publicly accessible,” writes Robert Storr in his introduction to the artist’s 1995 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmong Nauman’s most enigmatic publications of the 1960s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eClea Rsky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLA AIR\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e function less as illustrated books than as conceptual machines: works whose structures themselves generate questions and provoke reflection. These publications are organized around fundamental inquiries that anticipate the logic of conceptual art: What is an image? What transforms something into a picture? How much meaning can be contained within a title, a color, or the physical form of a book?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOften described as containing ten photographs of the sky above Los Angeles, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eClea Rsky\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in fact, contains no photographs and was produced without the use of a camera. Instead, the publication consists entirely of printed blue pages designed to evoke the experience of looking at the sky while simultaneously exposing the illusion of that perception. As Nauman explained in an interview: “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eClea Rsky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was a way to have a book that only had colored pages—pictures of the sky. I like the idea that you are looking into an image of the sky, but it is just a page; you are not really looking into anything … \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLA Air\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was the same idea, but it was also a response to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClea Rsky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e using polluted colors instead.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough these works, Bruce Nauman transforms the book into a cartography of perception and uncertainty, in which the boundaries between image and object, representation and reality, are continually unsettled.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54030110425427,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/CLEARSKYnew.png?v=1781880939","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/clea-rsky-clear-sky","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}