브루스 나우만 작품에 나타난 반전통주의적 성향과 인간 언어와 행위의 부조리성

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Anti-Conventionalism and the Absurdity of Human Language and Behavior in Bruce Nauman's Work -Study in Comparison with the Theatre of the Absurd, by Samuel Beckett-

Choi, Insun Advisor : Prof. Jin, Won-Jang Department of Art Graduate School of Chosun University

Bruce Nauman is known as one of the omnivorous artists. Defying conventional artistic practice, Nauman has worked in almost every conceivable medium since 1965. Abandoning traditional mediums of art, Nauman freely chose his materials from neon, wax, cloth glass, aluminum foil, rubber, concrete, and steels. Since he also employed his own body, language, and human behavior his style of work naturally was gone from the traditional method. Abandoning all traditional artistic methods and using the unconventional materials, Nauman has tried to stand for his original idea: the investigation of human behavior. Even though the range of his methodology is too wide and even complicated to place him in specific categories, his aesthetic goal has been always toward one point: "Art must be an investigative activity." He studied human behavior patterns in variety of physical and spatial environments. He said, "If art is making feeling, thought, or word visible so it may be acted upon, then art-making is a strategy for understanding human behavior, an arena in which the artist listens to and asks the aggressive questions surrounding ‘Who am I?' and 'What do I do?'. These questions have, in development of his work, become part of complex and sophisticated ontological investigation, and in this point, Nauman's work also can share with other cultural field, such as literature and philosophy, a concern with ontological subject: human being and human behavior. In both the style and the subject, Nauman's work goes beyond the boundary of limited art field. It goes among the field of Humanities' study. The anti-conventional methodologies in style and human behavioristic subject in Nauman's work essentially can be compared with the theatre of the absurd, especially, by Samuel Beckett. is one of the representative theatres of the absurd. It reveals absurdity of human beings and behaviors through the methodology of destructing the conventional way: destructing the conventional way of thinking, talking, behaving. Both in style and subject Nauman and Beckett share their goals, one in art field and the other in literature field.