Video/Art
Subtitle: the First Fifty Years
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited; Phaidon Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780714877594
Subjects: Museum of modern art (new york, n.y.); Installations (art); Art, modern, 20th century, exhibitions; Art, modern, 21st century, exhibitions
Description: The curator who founded MoMA's video program recounts the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years. Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. In this book, curator Barbara London traces the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art - from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky hardware to user-friendly software. In doing so, she reveals how video evolved from fringe status to be seen as one of the foremost art forms of today.