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The worlds of Nam June Paik / John G. Hanhardt.

By: Hanhardt, John G.
Contributor(s): Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Guggenheim Museum, 2000Description: 275 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0810969254.Subject(s): Paik, Nam June, 1932-2006 -- Exhibitions | Video art -- Exhibitions | Multimedia (Art) -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 709.2 PAI
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General Lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 709.2 PAI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00064974
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An illustrated study of the work of the Korean-born multi-media and installation artist, Nam June Paik. It is published to accompany an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition \'The Worlds of Nam June Paik,\' ... February 11 - April 26, 2000\'

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Library Journal Review

Holding a magnet to the face of a TV screen distorts the picture in strange and wonderful ways. Distorting or changing our ideas about the way television or video should look or work is the central theme of Nam June Paik!s art. Educated as a modernist musician in Japan and Europe, he arrived in New York in 1964 to participate in the radical Fluxus art movement then challenging the limits of conventional artistic theory. From a musical and performance background he proceeded to experiment with film and video, often producing spectacular installations of video monitors built into indoor or outdoor sculptures. Piling up antique TVs into robots or building wall maps of the Unites States using neon outlines around dozens of video monitors, Paik has created a vivid metaphor of the late 20th century. Written to accompany the current exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, this catalog presents an excellent overview of Paik!s involvement with the New York artworld of the Sixties, of his increasing fame as a designer of freestanding video sculpture, and of the numerous video works. This is the best single summation of Paik available in book format."David McClelland, Philadelphia (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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