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ID: 500118744
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Record Type: Person |
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Paik, Nam June (South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006)
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Note: Paik is known for his sculpture and installations employing television sets, video screens and junk assemblage, and is considered the inventor of video art. He began his career as a musician and wrote his thesis at Tokyo University on Arnold Shoenberg. He continued his studies in Munich and Freiburg, and gravitated to the avant-garde music scene in Cologne and Darmstadt, where he worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen. He met John Cage and began incorporating elements of what would become performance art into musical events, which led to an involvement with the Fluxus group. He exhibited the first known art work to incorporate television sets in 1963, and is perhaps most widely known for his collaborations with Charlotte Moorman, beginning in 1965, which resulted in the creation of his "TV Bra for Living Sculpture." He is credited with coining the phrase "electronic superhighway." Major retrospectives of his work were held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1982, and the Guggenheim Museum in 2000. Korean-American video artist. |
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South Korean (preferred) |
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American |
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Korean |
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artist (preferred) |
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performance artist |
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sculptor |
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video artist(s) |
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musician |
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writer(s) |
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filmmaker |
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teacher |
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Cage, John |
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(American composer and printmaker, 1912-1992) [500092036] |
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Fluxus |
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(International group of artists, active 1960s-late 1970s) [500125040] |
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Kubota, Shigeko |
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(Japanese video artist, born 1937, active in New York City) [500104766] |
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Moorman, Charlotte from 1964 Paik and Moorman have had a performing partnership |
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(American musician and performance artist, active 20th century) [500076417] |
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Biographies:
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(South Korean sculptor, video artist, and performance artist, 1932-2006) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Korean video artist, 1932-2006) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, born 1932) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(Korean video artist, 1932-2006) ..... [Grove Art]
(American sculptor, born 1932) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(Korean video artist b.1932) ..... [GRLPSC]
(American artist, b.1932) ..... [BHA]
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| Subject: ........ | [AVERY, BHA, CL-Courtauld, GRLPSC, Grove Art, VP, WL-Courtauld] |
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Getty Research Library Photo Archive database
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Grove Art artist database (1989-)
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Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Paik, Nam June " Accessed 5/01
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Krantz, New York Art Review (1988)
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LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
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Matzner, Künstlerlexikon mit Registern zur Documenta 1-8 (1987)
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Naylor, Contemporary Artists (1989) 1989
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Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1987) 191
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Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1989
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Witt Library, Authority files | | | | | | | | | |
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