Staring back at the sun
Subtitle: video art from Israel, 1970-2012
By: Chen Tamir, editor and organizing curator
Contributors: Seligman, Rachel, editor, project manager; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
Publisher: Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery at Skidmore College; Artis
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Saratoga Springs, NY
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780989956697
Subjects: Video art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Video art from Israel, 1970-2012
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name presented at various venues in North and South America and Europe, February 2016-November 2018.

Artists: Maayan Amir, Boaz Arad, Yossi Atia, Yael Bartana, Irit Batsry, Guy Ben-Ner, Hila Lulu Lin Farah Kufr Birim, Michael Druks, Benni Efrat, Avraham Eilat, Nir Evron, Yair Garbuz, Gideon Gechtman, Moshe Gershuni, Tamar Getter, Dor Guez, Sigalit Landau, Rafael (Raffi) Lavie, Motti Mizrachi, Avi Mograbi, Michal Naaman, Joshua Newstein, Dov Or Ner, Miri Nishri, Nira Pereg, Gilad Ratman, Itamar Rose, Roee Rosen, Buky Schwartz, Ruti Sela, Henri Shelesnyak, Ran Slavin, Doron Solomons, Micha Ullman, Rona Yefman, Dan Zakhem, Boaz Zonshine, Nana Zonshine.

Text in English and Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Ian Berry; title: Preface  -- Rivka Saker; title: Staring back at the sun: how video art in Israel evolved and why it matters  -- Chen Tamir; title: Early experiments in film and video, 1970-1980  -- Ilana Tenenbaum; title: An art form coming into its own, 1980-1997  -- Ilana Tenenbaum; title: The rise of the medium, 1997-2005  -- Sergio Edelsztein; title: State of amnesia, 2005-2012 -- Avi Feldman and Yael Bartana.