Vertical Roll — Joan Jonas

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Artist: Joan Jonas
Date: 1972
Medium: Video, black and white, sound; 19:38 min.
Location: Cleveland Museum of Art
Dimensions: [object Object]
Collection: Contemporary Art
Culture: America
Credit line: Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund

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