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Illuminating video an essential guide to video art edited by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer preface by David Bolt ; foreword by David Ross ; introduction by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, N.Y. Aperture in association with the Bay Area Video Coalition c1990.Description: 566 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0893813907
  • 0893813893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 778.599 FIF
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 778.599 FIF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39002000105982

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is an insightful evaluation of video art since its early beginnings, examining its theoretical, aesthetic and social implications.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 526-556) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Complexities of an Art Form
  • Histories Video: Shedding the Utopian Moment
  • A Brief History of American Documentary Video
  • Deacute;-collage/Collage: Notes Toward a Reexamination of the Origins of Video Art
  • Video Art: What's TV Got To Do With It?
  • Huffman And if the Right Hand did not know What the Left Hand is doing
  • Paradox in the Evolution of an Art Form: Great Expectations and the Making of a History
  • Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture Television
  • Furniture and Sculpture: The Room with the American View
  • Vito Acconci Performance
  • Video and Trouble in the Home
  • Video Installation Art: The Body the Image
  • and the Space-in-Between
  • Margaret Morse Video in Relation to Architecture
  • The Rio Experience: Video's New Architecture Meets Corporate Sponsorship
  • Dara Birnbaum The Art of The Possible
  • Francesc Torres Mobility
  • As American as . . .
  • Chip Lord Aligning The Museum Reaction Piece
  • Audience/Reception: Access/Control
  • The Feminism Factor: Video and its Relation to Feminism
  • Martha Gever The Medium Is the Mess . . . age
  • This Is Not a Paradox
  • The Wild Things on the Banks of the Free Flow
  • The Fantasy Beyond Control
  • Lynn Hershman Reach Out and Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity
  • Politics and Poetics: Latinos and Media Art
  • Coco Fusco Behind the Image
  • Muntadas Interventions of the Present: Three Interactive Videodiscs, 1981-90
  • Peter d'Agostino Syntax and Genre The Cultural Logic of Video
  • The Smell of Turpentine
  • The Importance of Being Ernie: Taking a Close Look (and Listen)
  • Joan Jonas Audience Culture and the Video Screen
  • Norman M. Klein Significant Others: Social Documentary as Personal Portraiture in Women's Video of the 1985
  • Christine Tamblyn Telling Stories Video Writing
  • Raymond Bellour Appropriation of Contemporary Reality: An Anecdote
  • Tony Labat Directions/Questions: Approaching a Future Mythology
  • Light and Death
  • The New Epistemic Space
  • Three Tapes by Steina
  • Steina Video Black--The Mortality of the Image
  • Bill Viola Phototropic
  • Tony Oursler
  • Notes Contributors
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Videography and Video Index
  • Picture Credits Index

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