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Article: Mix-master: working in a range of mediums, including video, collage, painting and sculpture, Christian Marclay applies a musician's sensibility to mostly found materials--with startling results.(Critical Essay)
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- Art in America
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- September 1, 2003
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Wandering in a Zurich museum some years ago, with dreary weather outside and drearier art inside, I came across a monitor continuously playing a video so humorous and ingenious that it completely changed my mood. It was Christian Marclay's Telephones (1995), a 7 1/2-minute compilation of brief Hollywood film clips that creates a narrative of its own. These linked-together snippets of scenes involve innumerable well-known actors such as Cary Grant, Tippi Hedren, Ray Milland, Humphrey Bogart and Meg Ryan, who dial, pick up the receiver, converse, react, say good-bye and hang up. In doing so, they express a multitude of emotions--surprise, desire, anger, disbelief, ...
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Article: Christian Marclay: UCLA Hammer Museum, Los ...
Artforum International;
October 1, 2003 ;
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... ... ring few bells for visitors to Christian Marclay's midcareer retrospective at ... and visual culture. Surveying Marclay's output of the last two decades ... to the central problematic that Marclay's work repeatedly takes up ...
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