ID: 700008578 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008578	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Four Corner Piece (installation (visual work); Bruce Nauman (born 1941); 1970; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county,...)

Note: Beginning in the mid-1960s, Bruce Nauman incorporated video into complex installations in which experience coalesces into form at the same time that the position of the viewer is exposed and challenged. Four Corner Piece is a square construction of tall white walls in which slightly smaller white walls stand, forming a narrow passageway. Alternating between the four corners of the passageway, video cameras and monitors sit on the floor, the arrangement of which prevents the viewer from glimpsing his or her own image as it is recorded in real time. The radical limitation of movement and the desire to control one’s own image that the work instills recalls on one hand rats in a maze and on the other totalitarian surveillance.

Titles:

Four Corner Piece (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: object grouping

Work Types:

installation (visual work) [300047896] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

performance art (preferred)

Creation Date: 1970

Creator Display:

Bruce Nauman (born 1941) [preferred,VP]

Nauman, Bruce (American sculptor, performance artist, born 1941) [500118742]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500302142] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Collectors Committee

Display Materials: Installation with four cameras and four monitors

	variable media [300387421]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, artists' materials, media (artists' materials))

Dimensions: variable

General Subject:

installation (preferred,isness)

Specific Subjects:

	passageways [300004283]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, building divisions, rooms and spaces, <rooms and spaces by function>, circulation spaces) (AAT)

	corners (attribute or configuration) [300404760]
	.....(Physical Attributes Facet, Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name), <attributes and properties by specific type>) (AAT)

	surveillance [300404761]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by general context>, analytical functions) (AAT)

	mazes (built works) [300312218]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by form>, <single built works by form: massing or shape>) (AAT)

	video cameras [300263898]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, photographic equipment, <cameras and camera accessories>, cameras (photographic equipment), <cameras by form or function>) (AAT)

	video monitors [300391189]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, audiovisual equipment) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Four Corner Piece	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) [online] (2015-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) [online] (2015-)