Bill Viola
Subtitle: the passions
By: John Walsh, editor ; with essays by Peter Sellars, John Walsh ; a conversation between Hans Belting and Bill Viola ; sources and notes on the works by Bill Viola ; visual documentation by Kira Perov
Contributors: Sellars, Peter; Walsh, John, 1937-; Belting, Hans; J. Paul Getty Museum; National Gallery (Great Britain); Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the National Gallery, London; Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Viola, Bill, -- 1951- -- Exhibitions; Viola, Bill, -- 1951- -- Interviews; Video art -- United States -- Exhibitions; Emotions in art -- Exhibitions; Artists -- United States -- Interviews
Genres: Exhibitions; Interviews
Description: "In his opening essay, John Walsh traces Viola's development as a video artist and the intellectual and spiritual concerns that have preoccupied him over the years. And in "The Artist in His Studio," Walsh offers a rare first-person account of the making of Emergence, a new work commissioned by the Getty for the exhibition. A transcription of a recent conversation between Bill Viola and Hans Belting reveals the roots of Viola's involvement with image making and the role that older works of art have played in his development. Peter Sellars explores the spiritual foundations and meaning of Viola's work in a remarkable essay that is as much meditation as study, while Viola himself selects some fifteen works of art, which, along with pages from his personal notebooks, represent the sources that have inspired the Passions series. Finally, Kira Perov has selected and organized frame sequences from each of the twenty Passions pieces, accompanied by the artist's descriptions. Altogether, Bill Viola: The Passions is a thorough and richly illustrated study of a new and compelling group of works by this seminal contemporary artist."--Dust jacket.
Notes: "This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition Bill Viola: the passions, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, January 24 through April 27, 2003, The National Gallery, London October 22, 2003 through January 4, 2004, and the Pinakotheks of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Spring 2004"--Colophon

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-295) and index