Digital Commonwealth — WGBH
Stan Vanderbeek's Violence Sonata
December 31, 1969
Stan Vanderbeek's "Violence Sonata" mixes live studio action and a prerecorded video work to question violence, race relations, and man's ability to communicate at the beginning of the 1970's. This short excerpt features a man systematically destroying a piano with a pickaxe.
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