Video/Art: the First Fifty Years

Author: Barbara London
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9781838663582
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
A personal and expert account of the artists and events that defined the medium's first 50 years - now in paperback Since the introduction of portable consumer electronics nearly a half century ago, artists throughout the world have adapted their latest technologies to art-making. In this new paperback edition of her acclaimed book, curator Barbara London traces the history of video art as it transformed into the broader field of media art - from analog to digital, small TV monitors to wall-scale projections, and clunky hardware to user-friendly software. In doing so, she reveals how video evolved from fringe status to be seen as one of the foremost art forms of today.

Regarding Warhol

Author: Mark Lawrence Rosenthal
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394697
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
This sumptuous volume presents the first full-scale exploration of warhol's tremendous influence across the generations of artists that have succeeded him. Warhol brought to the art world a unique awareness of the relationship that art might have with popular consumer culture and tabloid news, with celebrity, and with sexuality. Each of these themes is explored through visual dialogues between warhol and some sixty artists, among them John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Alfredo Jaar, Deborah Kass, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Elizabeth Peyton, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman and Luc Tuymans. These juxtapositions not only demonstrate warhol's overt influence but also suggest how artists have either worked in parallel modes or developed his model in dynamic new directions. Featuring commentary by many of the world's leading contemporary artists, as well as a major essay by the celebrated critic Mark Rosenthal and an extensive illustrated chronology, Regarding Warhol is an out-standing publication that will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in contemporary art.

Illuminating Video

Author: Doug Hall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 584

Book Description
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.

Video Art

Author: Sylvia Martin
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
ISBN: 9783822829509
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 95

Book Description
"Moving pictures -- Balkan Baroque / Marina Abramovic -- 3 adaptation studies (1. Blindfolded catching) / Vito Acconci -- Talo/The house / Eija-Liisa Ahtila -- Electric earth / Doug Aitken -- Homeward : bound / Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé -- Mother + father / Candice Breitz -- Sept visions fugitives / Robert Cahen -- Three transitions / Peter Campus -- The Bordeaux piece / David Claerbout -- Journey into fear / Stan Douglas -- Schnitte. Elemente der Anschauung / Valie Export -- Lock again / Yang Fudong -- Sturm / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Twenty four hour psycho / Douglas Gordon -- Video piece for two glass office buildings / Dan Graham -- Incidence of catastrophe / Gary Hill -- Impressions / Nan Hoover -- Les incivils / Pierre Huyghe -- Jones Beach piece / Joan Jonas -- Bossy burger / Paul McCarthy -- Again & again / Bjørn Melhus -- Dispersion room / Aernout Mik -- Anthro/Socio / Bruce Nauman -- Fervor / Shirin Neshat -- The idea of Africa / Marcel Odenbach -- Getaway # 2 / Tony Oursler -- Global groove / Nam June Paik -- I'm not the girl who misses much / Pipilotti Rist -- Born to be sold : Martha Rosler reads the strange case of Baby SM / Martha Rosler -- Intervista, finding the words / Anri Sala -- Mouth to mouth / Smith/Stewart -- May you live in interesting times / Fiona Tan -- Home / Steina and Woody Vasulka -- I do not know what it is I am like / Bill Viola -- Broad Street / Gillian Wearing.". -- Library of Congress.

Why Not the Best?

Author: Jimmy Carter
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557284180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
In this autobiography, Jimmy Carter details the youth and experiences that led him to seek the highest office in the land. He describes his idyllic childhood, his naval career, his strong Christian underpinnings, and the values of his mother and father.

Vision

Author: Melvyn Bragg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500019061
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
The second half of the twentieth century has seen British artists, architects, and designers assuming a central role on the world stage. Starting in the years of reconstruction after the war, the young began to challenge accepted artistic values, looking at popular culture for their inspiration; the iconoclasm of the Pop movement has continued to be one of the most vital ingredients of the British art scene. In the year-by-year record that this book provides, the work of newcomers making their first impact is seen alongside that of outstanding artists in their maturity, with connections and contradictions across the entire visual scene-from architecture, interior design, furniture, and the decorative arts to painting, sculpture, and graphic art.

Popeye, the First Fifty Years

Author: Bud Sagendorf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780207141997
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description

The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Author: Fernando Pessoa
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811226948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
For the first time—and in the best translation ever—the complete Book of Disquiet, a masterpiece beyond comparison The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa’s greatest literary achievement. An “autobiography” or “diary” containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are written under the semi-heteronym Bernardo Soares, an assistant bookkeeper. This existential masterpiece was first published in Portuguese in 1982, forty-seven years after Pessoa’s death. A monumental literary event, this exciting, new, complete edition spans Fernando Pessoa’s entire writing life.

Lassie

Author: Ace Collins
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140231830
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
A history of the dogs that portrayed Lassie in movies and television.

NASA/ART

Author: James Dean
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810972872
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Published in celebration of the space agency's fiftieth anniversary, NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration presents an expanded selection of the works created for the NASA Art Program, which was established in 1963 to document the history of the agency." "Essays by astronaut Michael Collins, curator Tom D. Crouch, and novelist Ray Bradbury frame nearly 150 paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures chosen from the archives of NASA and the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. NASA/Art stands as a lasting record of the impact of space exploration on the artistic imagination."--BOOK JACKET.