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Název:
Autor:
Michael Rush
Rok vydání:
2003
Identifikátory:
9780500237984
The story of video art embraces all the significant art ideas of recent times—abstraction, conceptual art, minimal art, performance art, pop art, photography, and movies—thanks to the power of the computer. Video has been used creatively to extend, repeat, fast-forward, retard, and speed up time, as well as to cause it to stop. Abundantly illustrated with frames and sequences, Video Art offers a history of the medium seen from the multiple perspectives of its early practitioners, through the vast array of conceptual, political, and lyrical installations of the 1980s and 1990s, to the present revolution of digital technology.
The idea of using the video camera as an extension of the artist's own body was first seen in the work of artists such as Bruce Nauman and Martha Rosler in the USA, VALIE EXPORT in Austria, and Hannah Wilke in Germany, and has continued to the present day, with work by Steve McQueen in Britain and Pipilotti Rist in Switzerland, among others. Video art has also produced new narrative forms, from nonlinear autobiographies to futuristic fantasies, from defining the political to redefining the sexual, as exhibited in the work of Bill Viola (USA), Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (USA/Spain), Marcel Odenbach (Germany), and many others. And in the postmedium age, artists from Pierre Huyghe (France) to Rodney Graham (Canada) and Lynn Hershman (USA) are currently exploring the hybridization of technology, in which video is combined and recombined with other materials, often in interactive installations. 383 color illustrations.
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