Videoarte

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by Sylvia Martin

Taschen [Paperback] B004THP4U6 The immediacy and accessibility of video makes it an ideal medium for artists who want to work with sound and moving image; no sooner than video cameras were available to the public in the 1970s were artists already beginning to experiment with the possibilities of video. Though it took decades for it to be widely embraced by mainstream art, video is now firmly accepted as an important medium, thanks to the work of artists such as Matthew Barney, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, and Gillian Wearing. Artists Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chris Cunningham, Matthew Barney, Fischli/Weiss, Gary Hill, Nan Hoover, Christian Marclay, Steve McQueen, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Marcel Odenbach, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Sam Taylor-Wood, Bill Viola, Gillian Wearing.

Genres: Art, Art History

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Sylvia Martin is composed by various authors.

Reviews

[Matteo Fumagalli · Rating 4 out of 5]

Non si deve avere l'aspettativa di trovarsi di fronte ad un manuale critico esaustivo sulla videoarte (imperdonabili alcune lacune, una su tutte la mancanza -neanche citato!- di Matthew Barney). Lo si deve prendere come un libretto chiaro e sintetico sulle tendenze della videoarte e degli artisti-chiave, sicuramente interessante. La selezione di artisti trattati è buon: tra i nomi arcinoti (Abramovic, Rist, Acconci, Viola, Rosler, Nauman...), anche qualche nome più giovane e nuovo da approfondire.