Video Writings by Artists (1970-1990)

Rating: 

Average: 3.5 (10 votes)

Art theory has always had a major component in writing, or the illustration of the artists’ own ideas around their trajectory and working methods. To be more specific, writing has been a way for artists to ponder on their own activity, to identify certain trends they felt close to, to articulate a reflection on a given medium and challenge preconceived ideas. Just as Film theory incorporated writings, manifestoes and reflections by filmmakers – in addition to those by the critics who undertook the study of the “new [cinematic] object” -, this publication testifies to the intention of gathering together a number of artists writings in order to review the early days of video art (up until 1990, to set a time span that is not entirely arbitrary). A reference book that would collect a series of texts that are currently scattered in different publications, and add a critical layer to LOOP Barcelona’s 15th edition (Winding the Clock Back – A contemporary archaeology of video).

If interested in buying the book, please send an email to: [email protected]

Google Books data: 

Category: 

Please notice that our website is not a shop. The items listed here are just for reference. Links will be provided when the publication is not generally available via standard retailers.

Add new comment

Filtered HTML

  • Replaces [VIDEO::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=someVideoID::aVideoStyle] tags with embedded videos.
  • Use [fn]...[/fn] (or <fn>...</fn>) to insert automatically numbered footnotes.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <blockquote> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <br> <p> <br/> <u> <img> <hr>
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • Use <bib>citekey</bib> or [bib]citekey[/bib] to insert automatically numbered references.
  • This creates an in line reference to another publication.

Plain text

  • No HTML tags allowed.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

Data

Author: 

Eugeni Bonet (ed.), Stephen Beck, AA Bronson, Peter Campus, Peter d'Agostino, Douglas Davis, Jon Dovey, Juan Downey, Jean-Paul Fargier, Hermine Freed, Frank Gillette, David Hall, Takahiko Iimura, Les Levine, Mary Lucier, Muntadas, Nam June Paik, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Paul ryan, Francesc Torres, Woody Vasulka, Scott Nygren, Bill Viola, Peter Weibel

Pages: 

309

Publisher: 

Publishing date: 

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

ISBN: 

9788867492831

Language: 

English