Synopses & Reviews
Film and Video Art is an exciting, comprehensive volume that traces the history of artists involvement with the moving image from the earliest experiments with film to the latest digital and video streaming techniques on the Internet.
Accompanied by striking imagery, leading international critics discuss major developments in the unfolding dialogue between artists and moving image media. Starting with the work of the Lumiere brothers in the late 19th century and progressing through the Surrealist, Dadaist, Russian Constructivist, and Pop Art movements to the prominence of documentary in recent contemporary art and the advent of big-budget art films, this engrossing and thorough survey is an invaluable resource. Major artists featured include Luis Buñuel, Man Ray, Douglas Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol.
Synopsis
Film and Video Art is an exciting, comprehensive volume that traces the history of artists' involvement with the moving image from the earliest experiments with film to the latest digital and video streaming techniques on the Internet.
Accompanied by striking imagery, leading international critics discuss major developments in the unfolding dialogue between artists and moving image media. Starting with the work of the Lumiere brothers in the late 19th century and progressing through the Surrealist, Dadaist, Russian Constructivist, and Pop Art movements to the prominence of documentary in recent contemporary art and the advent of big-budget art films, this engrossing and thorough survey is an invaluable resource. Major artists featured include Luis Bu uel, Man Ray, Douglas Gordon, Bruce Nauman, Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol.
Synopsis
and#8220;Expanded cinemaand#8221; encompasses film, video, performance, and multiple-projection. While video in museums has received considerable attention, experiments beyond the exhibition space have not. Here, leading scholars trace expanded and multiscreen cinema from its origins in early abstract film and the Bauhaus era to postwar happenings and live events in Europe and the United States, the first multimedia experiments of the 1960s, and the fusion of multiscreen art with sonic art and music from the 1970s onward. With new perspectives on American pioneers such as Carolee Schneemann and Stan Vanderbeek, this thought-provoking book goes on to explore the influence of video art on new media technologies.
About the Author
Stuart Comer is curator of Film at Tate Modern. Christopher Eamon is curator of the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection. Pip Laurenson is Head of Time-based Media Conservation at Tate. Pip Laurenson is the Head of Time-based Media Conservation at the Tate Gallery. Michael Newman is Associate Professor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago. Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent Agent, a service organization dedicated to digital art. A.L. Rees is a research tutor in Communications at the Royal College of Art, London. Ian White is Adjunct Film Curator for Whitechapel, London, and a columnist for Art Review.
John Wyver is the director of the television company Illuminations.