Paik Video

Published originally in German, Paik Video is the first English language edition of this full treatment of the "Father of Video Art," Nam June Paik. Richly illustrated with photographs and descriptions of his works, it includes a definitive discussion of the artist's claim to be the first Video Artist.A "must-read" for all persons interested in Video Art, this book will also be essential to all serious art collections and is an ideal introduction to the field.Paik was the first artist to use the TV tube as a medium for making art. Since the last 50's, the ingenius and outrageously inventive, Korean-born, American artist has subjected the video medium to a continuous series of transformations, whether producing interacting webs of electron light by exposing the TV tube to magnetic fields or creating installations involving arrays of dozens of TV screens. His videotapes, installations, oblects, drawings and prints are remarkable for the provocative and entertaining way they shed light bo

Edith Decker-Phillips Edith Decker-Phillips, born 1953, studied painting, art history, archaeology, ethnology and German language and literature in Bremen and Hamburg. In 1985 she received her Ph.D. in art history with a dissertation on Nam June Paik. Among her publications are two books on Nam June Paik: German edition of Paik Video (1988) and Niederschriften eines Kulturnomaden: Selected Writings (1992).