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Collections

Bruce Nauman
For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger)2010

Not on view
Gallery installation view with a large vertical panel showing four close-up hands making finger gestures in two stacked sections, beside a row of glass doors
Dark-toned composition with four black silhouetted hands arranged around a central void against a deep burgundy-black background, two descending from above and two reaching upward from below.
Color photograph, four views of two hands and forearms against contrasting white and black backgrounds. Upper half shows both hands with index and middle fingers raised, one hand wearing a gold ring; lower half shows the same arms inverted, palms open and relaxed.
Artist or Maker
Bruce Nauman
United States, born 1941
Title
For Beginners (all the combinations of the thumb and finger)
Date Made
2010
Medium
HD video installation (color, stereo sound), continuous play, two HD video sources, two HD video projectors, four speakers
Credit Line
Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Pinault Collection. Courtesy of Pinault Collection.
Accession Number
M.2011.65.1-.2
Classification
Time Based Media
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Halbreich, Kathy, editor. Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2018.