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The Worlds of NAM June Paik
by John G. Hanhardt, Nam June Paik, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jon Ippolito (Contributor)
A Guggenheim Museum Publication Accompanying the first American retrospective of the Korean-born multi-media artist's work since 1982, this volume brings together the major artworks that define Nam June Paik's singular achievement. Through his sculptures, installations, videotapes, and projects for television, Paik has recognized and realized the potential of video to become an artistic medium. This volume allows art lovers to experience the numerous ways in which Paik has treated the electronic moving image and expanded the definition of sculpture and installation art over the past four decades.
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Early Renaissance
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High Renaissance
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Baroque
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The word Renaissance means rebirth. In historical and artistic terms, it refers to the period in the history of Western Europe when there was a revival of interest in the arts and sciences of ancient (or classical) Greece and Rome.
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The great masters of the 16th century represented the climax, the classic phase, of Renaissance art. Art and architecture were employed by the Papacy for religious, political and family purposes. The tastes of Antiquity were being emulated in these years.
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The Baroque period witnessed a great flowering of artistic enterprises in Rome, many of which were secular in nature. But Rome was at the centre of the Catholic world, experiencing the effects of a Catholic reform movement which had resulted in the creation of new religious orders.
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Neoclassicism
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19th Century Art
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Towards Abstraction
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Neoclassicism has its roots in the mid-18th century at a time when there was a considerable expansion in what was known about the art and life of the ancient Greeks and Romans. 18th century artists and theorists were in a position to take a new look at classical art.
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The movements deal with changing ideas about the nature of visual representation and the function of art in society; images of the modern city and women; the increasing interest in non-European art; aspects of primitivism in the visual arts are studied.
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Cubism and early abstraction redefined the predominant values in art. It looked not towards surfaces and imitation but rather, the formal characterisation as a means of expression and the internal structures of things to create a careful and 'real' work of art.
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