Case Studies: Nam June Paik, TV Garden, 1974
Author: John G. Hanhardt (2003)
John G. Hanhardt is curator on film and media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) - Washington D.C..
"Nam June Paik is one of the key legendary and visionary figures of late 20th-century art. His career is an epic global journey from his birthplace in Seoul, Korea, to studies in Japan and, then, to travels in Germany in the 1950s to pursue his interest in modernism and music. Through the powerful examples of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, he became deeply involved in avant-garde performance and the transformation of video into an artists’ medium." (...)
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