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Bruce Nauman

1941 - Today

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Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bruce Nauman has received more than 511,748 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Bruce Nauman is the 757th most popular painter (down from 467th in 2019), the 2,495th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,587th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Painter.

Memorability Metrics

  • 510k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Bruce Nauman ranks 757 out of 2,023Before him are Arthur Rackham, Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Frans Pourbus the Younger, Andrea Sacchi, and Antonio Vivarini. After him are Bramantino, Roberto Ferruzzi, Jacek Malczewski, Walter Sickert, Arshile Gorky, and Sophie Gengembre Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Bruce Nauman ranks 156Before him are Myron Scholes, Nora Ephron, Fionnula Flanagan, Salvatore Accardo, Élisabeth Depardieu, and Paavo Lipponen. After him are Luis Alberto Lacalle, Eleni Karaindrou, Andrés García, Beniamino Stella, Sigmar Polke, and Richard Holbrooke.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bruce Nauman ranks 2,495 out of 20,380Before him are John Mearsheimer (1947), Nan Goldin (1953), Mervyn LeRoy (1900), Harry Dexter White (1892), Sela Ward (1956), and George Segal (1934). After him are James Ingram (1952), Bill Finger (1914), Elijah Wood (1981), Katherine Helmond (1929), Jerry Fodor (1935), and Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915).

Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Bruce Nauman ranks 24Before him are Frank Stella (1936), Carl Andre (1935), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Thomas Eakins (1844), Cy Twombly (1928), and Julian Schnabel (1951). After him are Donald Judd (1928), Cindy Sherman (1954), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Asher Brown Durand (1796), Andrew Wyeth (1917), and Helen Frankenthaler (1928).