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Video Art
Art history's most important movements and genres
The immediacy and accessibility of video makes it an ideal medium for artists who want to work with sound and moving image; no sooner than video cameras were available to the public in the 1970s were artists already beginning to experiment with the possibilities of video. Though it took decades for it to be widely embraced by mainstream art, video is now firmly accepted as an important medium, thanks to the work of artists such as Matthew Barney, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, and Gillian Wearing.
Artists featured: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chris Cunningham, Matthew Barney, Fischli/Weiss, Gary Hill, Nan Hoover, Christian Marclay, Steve McQueen, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Sam Taylor-Wood, Bill Viola, Gillian Wearing.
About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features:
- a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, etc.) that took place during the time period
- a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work and brief biography of the artist as well as additional information such as a reference work, portrait of the artist, and/or citations
About the author:
Sylvia Martin received her PhD in art history at the University of Cologne, trained at Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, and worked as curator and academic collaborator at Kunstmuseum as well as at Kunst Palast Museum in Düsseldorf. She currently works as freelance curator in Munich.
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Video Art
Martin, Dr. Sylvia
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages, $ 9.99 |
- Reviews (3 items)
"Sylvia Martin donne ici un panorama richement illustré et qui, bien que succinct, excite la curiosité, et l`envie de découvrir des œuvres capables de marier profondeur et beauté, et parfois chargées de poésie – à l`image d`un Yang Fudong, d`un Robert Cahen ou de Bill Viola."
paris-art.com, France
paris-art.com, France
- Clippings (3 items)
Soft Focus
Artists & Illustrators, United Kingdom, October 01, 2006
Artists & Illustrators, United Kingdom, October 01, 2006
- See also (3 items)
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