Unstrung Hero. (Music).(Nam June Paik, Works 1958.1979) (sound recording review)

DAMON KRUKOWSKI ON NAM JUNE PAIK

Nam June Paik, Works 1958.1979. Sub Rosa (SR 178).

NAM JUNE PAIK IS OFTEN PICTURED with an instrument: banging his head on a piano; dragging a violin along the ground; stretching a string across his back, to be bowed by cellist Charlotte Moorman. What these images share with many of Paik's multimedia works is the sense of a dreamed art--they represent a music that isn't heard, necessarily, but whose effect might be even greater than music that is. With television, the distance between Nam June Paik's dreams and reality seems starker: Works such ...

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