Lake Placid '80

Jan 1, 1980

0h 4m

★ 8.0

Overview

Paik produced this exuberant, high-speed collage as a commission for the National Fine Arts Committee of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games. In a fractured explosion of densely layered movement and action, images of Olympic sports events are mixed with Paik’s recurring visual and audio motifs.

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Allen Ginsberg

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10.0

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0.0

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No overview available.

0.0

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5.0

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6.2

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6.5

Cremaster 3

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2.3

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1.0

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6.3

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6.0

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5.5

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0.0

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0.0

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6.9

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0.0

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7.5

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4.7

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5.0

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7.3

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Lake Placid '80

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