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Document

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Two disembodied male colleagues direct Lynda Benglis, who sits between a monitor and a camera lens loudly exclaiming her vision for the video we’re watching. Playing with the idea of originality and how the reproduction of images troubles fine art categories, Benglis affixes a double portrait of herself to the monitor screen and draws moustaches on both likenesses. Document ends with Benglis writing the video’s title and “copyright, Dec. 1972” directly on the monitor underneath the photograph, validating this video accomplishment as an original artwork.

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English

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  • United StatesUS

    • Premiere1 Jan 1972
    • Digital / OTTNational Gallery of Art: Lynda Benglis and Her Contemporaries4 Nov 2020

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