Video art theory : a comparative approach / / Helen Westgeest

• Autore: Westgeest Helen <1958->
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 777
• Soggetto topico: Video art
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 Wearingâ€?s Trauma (2000) Juxtaposed to Joan Jonasâ€?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""; ""Home video as mnemonic device""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""2 Immateriality versus Three-Dimensionality: Video Art as Sculpture, Installation Art, Projection, and Virtual Medium""; ""Lynn Hershmanâ€?s Tillie the Telerobotic Doll (1995) Juxtaposed to Andy Warholâ€?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: Videoâ€?s Appropriation and Subversion of Classical Cinema""; ""Candice Breitzâ€?s Mother + Father (2005) Juxtaposed to Rodney Grahamâ€?s Vexation Island (1997) and Keren Cytterâ€?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""
• Sommario/riassunto: <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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Video art theory
• ISBN: 1-118-47548-8; 1-118-47538-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460725703321
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