id:			86487
accession number:	2015.144
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.144
updated:		2020-11-04 19:09:33.184000

Sonata I-IV, 1996. Nam June Paik (Korean, 1932-2006). Portfolio of 4 prints, each: lithograph, screenprint, and etching; sheet: 53.3 x 66 cm (21 x 26 in.); image: 51.8 x 64.8 cm (20 3/8 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund 2015.144

title:				Sonata I-IV
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creation date:			1996
creation date earliest:		1996
creation date latest:		1996
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creditline:			The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund
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culture:	Korea, 20th century
technique:	portfolio of 4 prints, each: lithograph, screenprint, and etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Nam June Paik (Korean, 1932-2006)  - artist
Korean artist, active in America<br>Born: July 20, 1932, Seoul, South Korea<br>Died: January 29, 2006, Miami, FL
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measurements: Sheet: 53.3 x 66 cm (21 x 26 in.); Image: 51.8 x 64.8 cm (20 3/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower right TV screen; numbered lower left TV screen in graphite;
lower right corner, print shop blindstamp of Clay Street Press


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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Korean Gallery 236 Rotation
	opening date:   2018-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Korean Gallery 236 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 29-July 16, 2018).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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From a set of four prints entitled <em>Sonata</em>, these prints juxtapose collaged images from Nam June Paik’s childhood, including photographs, musical compositions, and clips from his video works. Comprising life events and artistic pieces significant to the artist, the rectangular-shaped images convey a striking resemblance to a set of epitaph tablets—not only in appearance but in function—as a chronicle of the tomb owner’s achievements.<br><br>In the final row of <em>Sonata I</em>, Paik includes an image capturing his sensational performance with cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman in 1965. Paik and a bare-breasted Moorman played his composition <em>Cello Sonata No. 1 for Adults Only</em>. The couple was arrested for public indecency immediately after the performance.<br><br>As one of the core members of Fluxus (literally, flowing), an international experimental and interdisciplinary art movement of the 1960s and ’70s, Nam June Paik stood out with his electronic works employing television sets and a stream of endless images and videos clips.
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