Samson Young: Silver Moon or Golden Star, Which Will You Buy of Me?

by Orianna Cacchione, Seth Kim Cohen, G. Douglas Barrett

For his first US museum exhibition, Hong Kong-based sound artist Samson Young looks to the idealism presented at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago to explore varying concepts of social progress and utopia through a trilogy of animated music videos. The catalog addresses questions of how people adapt to societal changes that they have little control over. For Young, "progress" as it was defined in the 1933 fair's subtitle "A Century of Progress" represents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935573615
• ISBN13: 9780935573619
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Smart Museum of Art, the University of C
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 10.6"