New artists video. A critical anthology

Year: 1978
Publisher: E. P. Dutton, New York
Edition: 1st
Language: EN
Pages: 224 (xxii+202)
Condition: VG
Cover condition: G
Binding: SC
Series: A Dutton paperback original
Ft: 20,5*14,8*1,5 cm. 320 gr.

- What is video art? How does it differ from commercial television? Is video art linked to such traditional art forms as painting and sculpture? Is it a totally new phenomenon? What are the aims of video artists? How does one learn to make video artworks? What kind of equipment is needed? When did video art first appear and where is it going?
These are some of the questions dealt with in the essays printed in this book, and taken as a whole these essays illuminate some of the broad aesthetic concepts introduced by some of the best artists working in the field. The reader is thus offered this selection of the best theoretical, critical, and pragmatic documents written for and about new video in the expectation that it will lead to an appreciation of the complexity, the energy, and the potential of this new, yet in some ways very traditional, art form.

- CONTENTS
VICKY ALLIATA: Negative Videology
MICHAEL BENEDIKT: Poetry and Video Tape: A Suggestion
MONA DA VINCI: Video: The Art of Observable Dreams
DOUGLAS DAVIS: The End of Video: White Vapor
LYNN HERSHMAN: Reflections on the Electric Mirror
RICHARD KOSTELANETZ: Literary Video
ROSALIND KRAUSS: Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism
KIM LEVIN: Video Art in the TV Landscape: Notes on Southern California
LES LEVINE: One-Gun Video Art
RICHARD LORBER: Epistemological TV
STUART MARSHALL: Video Art, the Imaginary and the Parole Vide
NAM JUNE PAIK with CHARLOTTE MOORMAN: Videa, Vidiot, Videology
DAVID ROSS: A Provisional Overview of Artists' Television in the U.S
ROBERT STEFANOTTY: Kissing the Object Good-bye
JUDITH VAN BARON: A Means Toward an End
INGRID WIEGAND: Videospace: Varieties of the Video Installation
RON WHYTE: Sign-Off Devotional (Meditation and Prayer)

- Illustrated in b/w.