Les Levine
Les Levine | |
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Born | 1935 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Central School of Arts and Crafts in London |
Known for | Video art |
Awards | First prize for sculpture in the 1967 Canadian Sculpture Biennial |
Les Levine (born 1935) is a naturalized American Irish artist known as a pioneer of video art and as a conceptual artist working with mass communication. In 1967, Levine won first prize for sculpture in the Canadian Sculpture Biennial.[1]
Life and work
A graduate of the
In 1965, Levine, with Nam June Paik, were among the first artists to buy and use portapaks. Thus he was one of the first artists to try television as a medium for the dissemination of art. He has also used the telephone for this purpose, as well.[3]
In 1969 he exhibited White Sight at the
Also in 1969, Les Levine presented the durational environment Process of Elimination. The work involved 300 plastic sheets that were exhibited in a vacant lot owned by New York University, which the artist systematically removed over the course of a month. The art historian Corinna Kirsch describes this as a work about authorial control, particularly as "Levine's ability to control the removal of his work can be seen in parallel with the formation of the Art Workers' Coalition", a group that was formed the same month as Process of Elimination and which also involved the removal of a small sculpture.[6]
Levine has written on art for Arts, The
He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974 and again in 1980.[1]
Reference material
Expanded Cinema by Gene Youngblood (pp. 337–344). Beyond Modern Sculpture by Jack Burnham, The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art Simon Schuster, Art and the Future by Douglass Davis, Science and Technology in the Arts by Stewart Kranz, Innovative Printmaking by Theima P. Newman and On Photography by Susan Sontag.
Footnotes
- ^ a b Les Levine Bio
- ^ a b Bourdon, David (1969). "Les Levine Bursts with Elusive Ideas–and Ego". Life. No. 22 August 1969. pp. 62–7. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
- ^ Art by Telephone
- ^ O'Doherty, Brian (1986). Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space. San Francisco: University of California Press.
- ISBN 978-0-8478-6819-3.
- ^ Kirsch, Corinna (2021). "The Disposables: Plastic Technologies for Art Reform". Les Levine: Les Levine: Disposable Art, Technology, and Media, 1964–1971 (Thesis).
Further reading
- Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito, The Edge of Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Frank Popper, From Technological to Virtual Art, MIT Press
- Margot Lovejoy, Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age Routledge 2004
- Edmond Couchot, Des Images, du temps et des machines, édité Actes Sud, 2007
- Fred Forest, Art et Internet, Editions Cercle D'Art / Imaginaire Mode d'Emploi
- Edward A. Shanken, Art and Electronic Media. London: Phaidon, 2009
- Corinna Kirsch, Les Levine: Disposable Art, Technology, and Media, 1964-1971, PhD dissertation, 2021