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Autore |
Westgeest Helen <1958-> |
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Video art theory : a comparative approach / / Helen Westgeest |
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Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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1-118-47548-8 |
1-118-47538-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (222 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Video art |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Video Art Theory""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Key characteristics of video art""; ""Problem of general characterization of video art""; ""Medium as a concept and the comparative and interdisciplinary approach of media""; ""Historiography of video art""; ""Classification and selection of video artworks""; ""Literature on video art""; ""References""; ""1 Immediacy versus Memory: Video Art in Relation to Television, Performance Art, and Home Video""; ""Gillian Wearing�s Trauma (2000) Juxtaposed to Joan Jonas�s Vertical Roll (1972)"" |
""Video Art Dealing with the Constant Movements of Audio-Visual Electronic Media, and the Immediacy and Socio-Cultural Aspects of Television""""From television and audiotape to videotape: Dynamic images interwoven with sounds""; ""Socio-cultural aspects of television interrogated by video art""; ""The Appeal of Immediacy: Video in Performance Art and Performance in Video Art""; ""Video performance defined as the use of video in performances""; ""Video performance defined as substitute for a live event""; ""Video as documentation of performances"" |
""The Application of the Mnemonic Ability of Video and the Relationship with Activist-Videos and Home Video""""Video as social documentation and recording tool in activism""; ""Video art and collective memory""; |
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""Home video as mnemonic device""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""2 Immateriality versus Three-Dimensionality: Video Art as Sculpture, Installation Art, Projection, and Virtual Medium""; ""Lynn Hershman�s Tillie the Telerobotic Doll (1995) Juxtaposed to Andy Warhol�s Outer and Inner Space (1965)""; ""Television as an Object: Sculpture or Part of Architecture"" |
""Theory of boredom""""Video Art and Drawing""; ""Video Art and Painting""; ""Color in video art and the relationship between painting and avant-garde films""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""4 Repetition and Fragmentation in Narrative: Video�s Appropriation and Subversion of Classical Cinema""; ""Candice Breitz�s Mother + Father (2005) Juxtaposed to Rodney Graham�s Vexation Island (1997) and Keren Cytter�s Corrections (2013)""; ""Aspects of Narrative in Video Art Reacting to Hollywood Films, and Views on Compulsive Repetition""; ""Theories on narrative applied to the three key works"" |
""Compulsive repetition"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<b>Helen Westgeest </b>is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her most recent publication is <i>Photography Theory in Historical Perspective: Case Studies from Contemporary Art (</i>co-authored with Hilde Van Gelder, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Westgeest is also editor and a contributor of <i>Take Place: Photography and Place from Multiple Perspectives (</i>2009) and joint editor of <i>Photography between Poetry and Politics </i>(with Hilde Van Gelder, 2008). |
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