Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide To Video Art
From the first portapak productions, video art has been a purposeful outsider on the margins of official aesthetic acceptability. This collection of 41 essays by American video artists, scholars, and critics illuminates the complex, heterogeneous nature of video art and highlights its ties to the visual arts and contemporary culture. The essays explore the impact of video technology in mass culture, narrative storytelling, and museum installations and as a means of promulgating alternative social and philosophical visions. This well-conceived book offers consistently good essays. In a field that lacks much critical discourse, it helps to provide a critical basis and context for understanding video's role as art and in society. Substantive and important for special and research collections.- Rus sell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.