Bruce Nauman (born 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman is widely regarded as being among the most important living American artists.

Bruce Nauman spent his formative years in Northern California―first as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, then living in and around San Francisco. "A Rose Has No Teeth" explores Nauman's relationship to the place where he created his earliest and most strikingly original works during the mid to late 1960s. It demonstrates that Nauman established much of his artistic vocabulary during this period and that he laid the groundwork for fundamental ideas he addressed throughout his oeuvre, such as the role of the artist, the function of art, and the primacy of the idea over its form. This book shows that Nauman was at the forefront of these revolutionary changes and almost single-handedly redefined what it meant to be an artist.

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