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AP."},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"In the collaborative video Zeide Isaac, Alejandro Cesarco's <EM>zeide</EM> (Yiddish for \"grandfather\"), a Holocaust survivor, performs for the artist's camera, reading from a script prepared by his grandson. This script, rather than detailing his grandfather's personal experience during the 1930s, highlights the gap between event and recollection, reflecting on the vagaries of memory, especially traumatic memories, and the imperfect reconstruction of past events in the present.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Description","textentryhtml":"Zeide Isaac was made in collaboration with Alejandro's grandfather, a Holocaust survivor.&nbsp; We might expect the work to take the form of a conventional documentary, in which the artist's grandfather recounts his experiences in a straightforward fashion, thereby conforming to an evidentiary imperative.&nbsp; Instead, he reads from a script prepared by his grandson, a script that reflects on the vagaries of memory and the imperfect reconstruction of past events in the present.&nbsp; Like the best of Alejandro's work, Zeide Isaac is elegant and austere, but also poignant and melancholy.","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":26039,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2010-16_1","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Gallery image"},{"id":26040,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2010-16_2","isprimary":0,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Gallery image"},{"id":26041,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2010-16_3","isprimary":1,"rank":3,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Gallery image"},{"id":26042,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2010-16_4","isprimary":0,"rank":4,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Gallery image"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2010,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 70 (2011): p. 69-110.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2010,\"&nbsp;<em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 70 (2011): p. 69-110., p. 86","date":2011,"id":2974,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/23631219"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":3742,"citation":"Art on Hulfish | Time's Relentless Melt Saturday, August 20, 2022 - Sunday, November 6, 2022","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2022-08-20","enddate":"2022-11-06","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3742"}],"geography":[],"terms":[{"id":2038550,"term":"Uruguayan","aatid":300107972,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2055565,"term":"time-based works","aatid":300185191,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2055606,"term":"video art","aatid":300102067,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2087885,"term":"families","aatid":300055474,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2099884,"term":"memory","aatid":300254803,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2038492,"term":"American","aatid":300107956,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"}],"classifications":[{"id":2055565,"classification":"time-based works"},{"id":2055606,"classification":"video art"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2038550,"culture":"Uruguayan"},{"id":2038492,"culture":"American"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199323,"term":"Latin American Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199324,"term":"Art Since 1945","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"duration","type":"Minutes","units":"minutes","dimension":"5.00"},{"element":"duration","type":"Seconds","units":"seconds","dimension":"45.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"114.29"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"152.39"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"12.60"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"14.20"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"5.00"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"17.30"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"11.20"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"3.20"}],"packages":[{"packageid":167646,"name":"web_highlights"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/2010-16_3"],"displaymaker":"Alejandro Cesarco, born 1975, Montevideo, Uruguay; active New York, NY","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Alejandro Cesarco (born 1975, Montevideo, Uruguay; active New York, NY), Zeide Isaac, 2009. 16mm film transferred to DigiBeta\r\n; 5 minutes, 45 seconds (duration), 114.3 x 152.4 cm (projected), 17.3 × 11.2 × 3.2 cm (video case), 12.6 × 14.2 × 5 cm (dvd case). 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