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

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Author
Fifer, Sally Jo
Hall, Doug 1944-
Contents
Introduction : complexities of an art form / Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer -- Video : shedding the Utopian moment / Martha Rosler -- A brief history of American documentary video / Deirdre Boyle -- Dé-collage/collage : notes toward a reexamination of the origins of video art / John G. Hanhardt -- Video art : what's TV got to do with it? / Kathy Rae Huffman -- And if the right hand did not know what the left hand is doing / Gary Hill -- Paradox in the evolution of an art form : great expectations and the making of a history / Marita Sturken -- Television, furniture, and sculpture : the room with the American view / Vito Acconci -- Performance, video, and trouble in the home / Kathy O'Dell
Video installation art : the body, the image, and the space-in-between / Margaret Morse -- Video in relation to architecture / Dan Graham -- 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 / Howard Fried -- The feminism factor : video and its relation to feminism / Martha Gever -- The medium is the mess ... age / Bruce and Norman Yonemoto -- This is not a paradox / Judith Barry -- The wild things on the banks of the free flow / Dee Dee Halleck -- The fantasy beyond control / Lynn Hershman -- Reach out and touch someone : the romance of interactivity / Ann-Sargent Wooster
Ethnicity, 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 -- The cultural logic of video / Maureen Turim -- The smell of turpentine / Juan Downey -- The importance of being Ernie : taking a close look (and listen) / Bruce Ferguson -- Untitled / Joan Jonas -- Audience culture and the video screen / Norman M. Klein -- Significant others : social documentary as personal portraiture in women's video of the 1980s / Christine Tamblyn -- Video writing / Raymond Bellour -- Appropriation of contemporary reality : an anecdote / Tony Labat -- Directions/question : approaching a future mythology / Rita Myers
Light and death / Mary Lucier -- The new epistemic space / Woody Vasulka -- Three tapes by Steina / Steina -- Video black : the mortality of the image / Bill Viola -- Phototropic / Tony Oursler
1990
C1990
Call number
N6494.V53 I43 1990
N6494.V53I29 1990
Type
Books
Physical description
566 p. ; 24 cm
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Video art
Record ID
siris_sil_651739
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0