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Vintage television sets arranged like a robot against a green circuit-board background with handwritten notes.

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Rousseau...Lao-tze also Pleaded for the Return to Mother Nature

Nam June Paik

1989

Medium
Lithograph, photoetching, aquatint, and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (irregular): 29 7/8 × 22 5/16 in. (75.9 × 56.6 cm) Image: 27 9/16 × 100 1/2 in. (70 × 255.3 cm)
Accession number
94.46.8
Acquired
1994
Credit line
Purchase
Reproduction credit
© Nam June Paik Estate
Edition
49/64 | I-VIII APs, 2 PPs, 2 Publisher's Proofs, 2 Shop Proofs
Publication
Printed by Mark Patsfall Graphics; published by Carl Solway Gallery
Department
collection

About this work

Nam June Paik, Rousseau...Lao-tze also Pleaded for the Return to Mother Nature, 1989. Lithograph, photoetching, aquatint, and engraving, sheet (irregular): 29 7/8 × 22 5/16 in. (75.9 × 56.6 cm) Image: 27 9/16 × 100 1/2 in. (70 × 255.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase 94.46.8. © Nam June Paik Estate

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