Video Art, Second Edition
by Michael Rush
List Price:
Our Price: $21.76
You Save: $13.19 (38%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $20.00 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Michael RushEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-25
ISBN: 0500284873
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Book Reviews of Video Art, Second Edition
Book Review: Flashy book with little actual theoretical/critical content
Summary: 2 Stars
I would like to think of myself as someone who is fairly well informed of the (short) history and theory of video art. As such, I will say this book is a very basic, sort of bland overview of the langauge of video. It's very well put together in terms of it being flashy and "hip"; all the stills are well printed and all the big, "in-vogue" art star names are included (but where are people like Haron Faroqi? Or did he just shoot on film and thus not make the hipster cut?) With that said, there is little to no actual critical content in the writing. It introduces concepts in a very simple way, and doesn't actually end up saying much other than varying degrees of further artist canonization. I don't know maybe I am just too picky and also semi-brainwashed by more rigorous academic books on the topic, but I actually stopped reading the book because it was so boring. If you're looking for a slick coffee table book with which to impress your friends, one that will let them know that you too have joined that cool club called "connoisseurship of video art" and a book that they will tend to thumb through just to look at "all the pretty pictures" (which I find hilariously absurd- a book of still images taken from video), then this book is for you. If you're looking for anything deeper than that, I would look elsewhere to titles like "Illuminating Video : An Essential Guide to Video Art" by David Ross, Doug Hall, Sally Jo Fifer, and David Bolt.
Summary of Video Art, Second Edition
The most complete and up-to-date overview available of an art form born some forty years ago and now ubiquitous internationally.Video art has moved from brief showings on tiny screens in alternative art spaces to dominance in international exhibitions and artistic events, in which vast video installations sometimes occupy factory-sized buildings or video projections take over the walls of an entire city block. It embraces all the significant art ideas and forms of recent times-from Abstract, Conceptual, Minimal, Performance, and Pop to photography and film.
Abundantly illustrated with frames and sequences, this updated edition offers a history of the medium from its early practitioners, such as Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci, who used the video camera as an extension of their own bodies, through the vast array of conceptual, political, personal, and lyrical installations of the 1980s and 1990s by Gary Hill, Bill Viola, I?igo Manglano-Ovalle, Mary Lucier, Michal Rovner, and others up to the present day.
A new chapter, "Video Ascending," explores the recent use of video in what might be called "the new cinematics"-not only multi-screen installations mixing sound and visuals but also immersive environments, including Virtual Reality, and alternative sculpture that combines solid forms with moving images. 383 illustrations, 296 in color.
General Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in General Books
Understanding Shutter Speed: Creative Action and Low-Light Photography Beyond 1/ 125 Secondby Bryan Peterson
Amphoto Books; Published: 2008-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $12.85
Price in other shops:
Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogsby Gene Weingarten
Simon & Schuster; Published: 2008-10-07; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $11.85
Price in other shops:
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photosby Michael Freeman
Focal Press; Published: 2007-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.78
Price in other shops:
Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manualby Barbara Brundage
Pogue Press; Published: 2008-10-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $25.53
Price in other shops:
Vanity Fair: The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Imagesby Graydon Carter, David Friend
Abrams; Published: 2008-09-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $40.93
Price in other shops:
The Oxford Projectby Stephen G. Bloom
Welcome Books; Published: 2008-09-16; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $26.45
Price in other shops:
The Digital Photography Book, Volume 2by Scott Kelby
Peachpit Press; Published: 2008-01-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.97
Price in other shops:
The Digital Photography Bookby Scott Kelby
Pearson Education; Peachpit Press; Published: 2006-09-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.90
Price in other shops:
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition)by Bryan Peterson
Amphoto Books; Published: 2004-08-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.56
Price in other shops:
The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)by Scott Kelby
New Riders Press; Published: 2008-09-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.80
Price in other shops:
Similar Books and other products
Participation (Documents of Contemporary Art)The MIT Press; Published: 2006-11-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.85
Price in other shops:
Art of the Digital Ageby Bruce Wands
Thames & Hudson; Published: 2007-07-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.14
Price in other shops:
A History of Experimental Film and Videoby A.L. Rees, A. L. Rees
British Film Institute; Published: 1999-05-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.00
Price in other shops:
Video Art: A Guided Tourby Catherine Elwes
I. B. Tauris; Published: 2005-03-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $25.98
Price in other shops:
Digital Art (World of Art)by Christiane Paul
Thames & Hudson; Published: 2003-07-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.67
Price in other shops:
New Media Art (Taschen Basic Art Series)Taschen; Published: 2006-03-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.98
Price in other shops:
A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Functionby Chris Meigh-Andrews
Berg Publishers; Published: 2006-12-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $24.95
Price in other shops:
New Media in Art (World of Art)by Michael Rush
Thames & Hudson; Published: 2005-06; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.89
Price in other shops:
Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Sensesby Nicolas De Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry
Thames & Hudson; Published: 2004-09-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $18.34
Price in other shops:
Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video ArtAperture; Published: 1991-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.95
Price in other shops: