Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780893813895)

This volume contains the insights of prominent artists in the field as well as critical writings by scholars and critics. It illustrates the complex, heterogeneous nature of video, and highlights its strong ties to the visual arts and social theory. While providing an essential critical context for understanding video's role as art, these writings show that video is at the forefront of contemporary cultural and aesthetic discourse. Using a wide range of strategies, from the poetic to the deconstructive, these essays provide a long overdue critical context in which to evaluate video as art and its subsequent impact on social and cultural behavior.

Author: Doug Hall,Sally Jo Fifer
ISBN-10: 0893813893
ISBN-13: 9780893813895
Publisher: Aperture
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1991
Pages: 566
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.57lbs
Size: 9.57h x 6.88w x 1.69d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 03/15/1991