On view
Bruce Nauman, Mold for a Modernized Slant Step, 1966
Images of Bruce Nauman, Mold for a Modernized Slant Step

Mold for a Modernized Slant Step, 1966
Plaster
Installed: 18 ¼ × 14 ½ × 13 3/8 in. (46.4 × 36.8 × 34 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gerald S. Elliott Collection, 1995.70.a-b. Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.
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Exhibitions
- West by Midwest–
- Short A black-and-white photograph of two men shaking hands is mounted to a light-colored piece of wood.
- Long A black-and-white photograph with white borders is affixed to a small wood board with photo corners. The photo shows a scene in a supper club or restaurant. It features two fair-skinned, dark-haired men in suits standing, shaking hands. The man on the left holds a small box and the man on the right extends his left hand to receive it. In the foreground, two seated, light-skinned people with long dark glossy hair look up at the men from their table. The two men look directly at us. A date stamp reading "JAN 3 1968" appears in the bottom border of the photo. The ends of two knotted leather cords emerge above and below the photo on the left side of the wooden board, seemingly binding the board like a book cover. A signature reading "Edward Ruscha" appears on the board in blue ink below the image, and the initials "B.A.B." are signed and underlined in black on the wood above the mounted photograph.
Collection
Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Fountain (from the portfolio Eleven Color Photographs), 1966–67/1970/2007 - Short A shirtless man shown from the torso up with pursed lips gingerly spits water toward the left of the viewer.
Bruce Nauman, Live or Die (State I), 1985 - Short Words rendered in crudely applied red paint read: "LIVE OR DIE," set against a white background.
Bruce Nauman, Live or Die (State II), 1985 - Short On a white paper rectangle, three lines of all-caps black text in streaky black lines reads "Live or Die."
Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, 1983 - Short A circle of words formed by neon lights in green, blue, pink, and yellow reads, clockwise from the top: "LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN LIFE DEATH."
Bruce Nauman, Three Dead-End Adjacent Tunnels, Not Connected, 1979 - Short Three-dimensional triangle-shaped sculpture that sits on the floor
Bruce Nauman, Run from Fear, Fun from Rear, 1972 - Short Two neon signs illuminate a dark room. The first reads, "Run from Fear" while underneath the second reads, "Fun from Rear."
- Short Two rows of neon text read, "RUN from FEAR" in yellow, and, "FUN from REAR" in red.