Peace and Anwar Sadat [videorecording] / Ulysses Jenkins. [1985]

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Peace and Anwar Sadat [videorecording] / Ulysses Jenkins. [1985]

Artist Ulysses Jenkins describes this tape as "a poetic ritual-video-performance" that pays tribute to assassinated Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and his efforts toward peace in the Middle East.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (22 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 3/4 in. original.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6912072

Getty Research Institute

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Jenkins, Ulysses, 1946-

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...

Sadat, Anwar, 1918-1981

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