Abstract Painting 1960-1969: Video Art in the Sixties
- Author
- Davidson Gigliotti
- Publisher
- Institute for Art and Urban Resources
- Place
- Long Island City, New York
- ETC archive
- ETC0364
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Davidson Gigliotti. Abstract Painting 1960-1969: Video Art in the Sixties. Institute for Art and Urban Resources. 1982.
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