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1937–1980 United States

Gregory Battcock (New York, 1937 – San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1980) was an American art critic and writer, who performed in Eating Too Fast, a 1966 Andy Warhol film made at the Factory.

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Video art is art that will stretch the boundaries of the art world.

Warhol's art... all seem to reflect in art the reality of an official culture of repression rather than of life.

What is video art? How does it differ from commercial television? Is video art linked to such traditional art forms as painting and sculpture? Is it a totally new phenomenon?

Before man was aware of art he was aware of himself. Awareness of the person is, then, the first art. In performance art the figure of the artist is the tool for the art. It is the art.

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