
Tongues: Savage/Love
Shirley ClarkeWW-1981-M088687
Catalogue
- Year
- 1981
- Dimensions
- 25:39 min.
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Shirley Clarke
Artist

Shirley Clarke
Shirley Clarke was an American filmmaker and video artist who pioneered experimental cinema and early video art from the 1950s onward. Working primarily in 16mm film and later video, she created formally inventive documentaries and abstract works that rejected commercial narrative conventions. Her practice ranged from choreographic film to portrait studies and expanded into video installation and performance in her later decades. Clarke's work remains central to postwar avant-garde film history and the emergence of artist video.
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- Shirley Clarke
- Year
- 1981
- Dimensions
- 25:39 min.
- Watts ID
- WW-1981-M088687
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
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- Status
- verified