You can't lick stamps in China [videorecording] / Nam June Paik with Gregory Battcock. [1979]

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You can't lick stamps in China [videorecording] / Nam June Paik with Gregory Battcock. [1979]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/419264177

This tape explores the position of the Western tourist in relation to other cultural contexts, and considers the mediation of reality through memory and images. A witty travelogue documenting Battcock's two-month cruise to China is reframed and recontextualized at a reunion of Battcock's fellow travelers, when they watch the original footage and comment on their experiences.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (29 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Battcock, Gregory, 1937-1980

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Art critic, educator, and painter; New York, N.Y. Birthdate cited as 1937, 1939 and 1941; d. 1980. Editor, ARTS MAGAZINE, 1973-1980, and author of numerous books and articles on art and art education. Battcock was on the faculty of William Paterson College in New Jersey. He was murdered in Puerto Rico, Dec. 25, 1980. From the description of Gregory Battcock papers, 1958-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80242447 ...

Paik, Nam June

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