Artist Monograph

Charles Atlas, American

American, born 1949

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Video	11	91.7%
Film	1	8.3%

Production by Decade

3

1970s

5

1980s

2

2000s

2

2010s

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1979	1
2000	1
2014	3
2015	7

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 12 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Walkaround Time Video Acc. 258.2015	1973	Video (color, sound)	51:06 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Merce by Merce by Paik Part One: Blue Studio: Five Segments Video Acc. 1275.1979	1975-1976	Video (color, sound)	15:38 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Acquired through the generosity of Barbara Pine
Fractions I Video Acc. 253.2015	1978	Video (black and white and color, sound)	32:59 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
From an Island Summer Video Acc. 254.2015	1983-84	Video (color, sound)	13:04 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Parafango Video Acc. 256.2015	1983-84	Video (color, sound)	38 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Hail the New Puritan Video Acc. 255.2015	1986	16mm film transferred to video (color, sound)	84:47 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Ex-Romance Video Acc. 252.2015	1987	Video (color, sound)	48:22 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Because We Must Video Acc. 1637.2000	1989	Video (color, sound)	50 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Acquired through the generosity of Barbara Sahlman
Rainer Variations Video Acc. 257.2015	2002	Video (black and white and color, sound)	41:30 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Plato's Alley Installation Acc. 890.2014	2008	Video (black and white, silent)	6:40 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of Catherine Badomi Heckett
Painting by Numbers Installation Acc. 889.2014	2011	Three-channel video (black and white, silent)	8:21 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of Catherine Badomi Heckett
143652 Installation Acc. 888.2014	2012	Video (color, silent)	12 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of Catherine Badomi Heckett