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Sculpture
Bakelite Robot
Nam June Paik, (Seoul, Korea, 1932 - 2006)
Paik, Nam June
United States
1932 - 2006
Male
Primary
46 x 32 3/16 x 9 in. (116.8 x 81.8 x 22.9 cm)
Mixed media
Mixed media
2002
2002
2002
Sculpture
Nam June Paik, often referred to as the “Father of Video Art,” studied music performance, art history, and Eastern philosophy in Korea and Japan before making New York City his home in 1964.
Paik expanded the language and materials of artmaking and was part of Fluxus, an international avant-garde art movement. Interested in electronic music and video manipulations, in 1964 Paik created a remote-controlled robot, Robot K-456, which he used in performances, often on the streets of Manhattan. This celebrated artwork spoke to Paik’s efforts to humanize technology, and it inspired his first “Family of Robot” sculpture, made in the 1980s and fashioned from a variety of antique televisions and radios.
Bakelite Robot, created late in life, is a signature work that addresses a variety of artistic and cultural issues: the human form in sculpture, the found object, technology and art, and the transformation of video into a sculptural medium.
[Hawks Gallery reinstallation, summer 2019]
Ken Hakuta
2018.34
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/27/2018
2018.34DI#1
digital image
9/12/2018
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2018.34DI#4
digital image
10/17/2018
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2018.34DI#2
digital image
10/17/2018
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2018.34DI#3
digital image
10/17/2018
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2018.34_A2.jpg
Drawing
Untitled
Nam June Paik, 1932 - 2006
Paik, Nam June
United States
1932 - 2006
Male
Primary
12 x 17 15/16 in. (30.5 x 45.6 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Graphite
Graphite
1987
1987
1987
Drawing
blue pencil, Unclear what this refers to, as Paik was dead before 2010
2018.35
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/31/2018
2018.35DI#1
00/00/00
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2018.35DI#2
digital image
10/30/2018
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/Inventory pictures/2018.35_I2.jpg
2018.35DI#3
digital image
1/3/2019
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2018.35_A2.jpg
Drawing
Untitled (Scan Lines)
Nam June Paik, 1932 - 2006
Paik, Nam June
United States
1932 - 2006
Male
Primary
18 1/16 x 24 in. (45.8 x 60.9 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Pastel
Pastel
2004
2004
2004
Drawing
2018.36
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/31/2018
2018.36DI#1
00/00/00
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2018.36DI#2
digital image
10/30/2018
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/Inventory pictures/2018.36_I2.jpg
2018.36DI#3
digital image
1/3/2019
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2018.36_A2.jpg
Drawing
Cage Wave
Nam June Paik, 1932 - 2006
Paik, Nam June
United States
1932 - 2006
Male
Primary
22 1/4 x 30 1/16 in. (56.5 x 76.4 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Mixed media
Mixed media
1996
1996
1996
Drawing
lower leftlower left
2018.37
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/31/2018
2018.37DI#1
00/00/00
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2018.37DI#2
digital image
10/30/2018
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/Inventory pictures/2018.37_I2.jpg
2018.37DI#3
digital image
1/3/2019
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2018.37_A2.jpg
Sculpture
Untitled
Nam June Paik, 1932 - 2006
Paik, Nam June
United States
1932 - 2006
Male
Primary
8 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (21.6 x 22.2 x 29.8 cm)
Mixed media
Mixed media
2005
2005
2005
Sculpture
2018.38
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/31/2018
2018.38DI#1
00/00/00
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2018.38DI#3
digital image
1/31/2019
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2018.38_A3.jpg
2018.38DI#2
digital image
1/31/2019
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2018.38_A2.jpg