{"product_id":"dara-birnbaum-t-j-demos-9781846380679","title":"Dara Birnbaum: Technology\/Transformation: Wonder Woman","description":"\u003cb\u003eA critical examination of Dara Birnbaum's action-packed and riveting video of Wonder Woman's transformations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning cry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum's video Technology\/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. During its seven-minute span we see, again and again, the transformation of the drab secretary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating and repeating the moment of transformation--spinning figure, arms outstretched--Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In this illustrated examination of Birnbaum's video, T. J. Demos situates it in its historical context--among other developments in postmodernist appropriation, media analysis, and feminist politics--and explores the artist's pioneering attempts to open up the transformative abilities of video as a medium. Demos examines Birnbaum's influence on such artists as Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Candice Breitz, and the turn toward \"postproduction procedures\"--the mobilization of existing imagery for innovative uses. He also reveals a fascinating historical shift in the reception of Birnbaum's work: a move from an emphasis on her deconstruction of mass culture ideology to an appreciation of her creative use of consumer imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. J. Demos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1846380677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781846380679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Afterall Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.88w x 0.42d","brand":"T. J. Demos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136917188863,"sku":"9781846380679","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d4d069b-7d38-439d-bcaa-414830f17f6e.jpg?v=1770165315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dara-birnbaum-t-j-demos-9781846380679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}