Charles Atlas

Because We Must
1989

Close-up of a person with dramatic clown makeup, featuring exaggerated black eyebrows, bright red lips, rosy cheeks, and a shiny silver costume or headpiece.
Close-up of a person with dramatic clown makeup, featuring exaggerated black eyebrows, bright red lips, rosy cheeks, and a shiny silver costume or headpiece.

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Date
1989

Classification
Video

Medium
Video, color, sound, 52 min.

Accession number
2014.283

Edition
Edition open

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee and Catherine Orentreich in honor of Norman Orentreich

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

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