Kota Ezawa
Lennon Sontag Beuys
2003
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Kota Ezawa
Lennon Sontag Beuys
2003
Physical Qualities
Single-channel video animation (color, sound), Duration: 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Credit Line
Gift of a MAD Gathering in Honor of James D. Thornton
Object Number
2017.321
Using computer drawing software, Kota Ezawa creates animations of culturally significant television and film clips, preserving their original soundtracks. In Lennon Sontag Beuys, he has selected footage of musician John Lennon (1969), author Susan Sontag (2001), and artist Joseph Beuys (1974) speaking about creative forms of protest and art’s social and ethical responsibilities. The Sontag excerpt addresses the potential of photography to serve as a call to “moral awakening.” It is interesting to consider whether these statements apply to the works of Ezawa himself with their digital reinterpretation of photographic sources.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2017; Monroe Denton, Brooklyn, NY
Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960
