Helen Westgeest

eBook, ePUB

Video Art Theory (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Approach

Beschreibung

Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach demonstrates how video art functions on the basis of a comparative media approach, providing a crucial understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art and of the visual mediations we encounter in daily life.

• A critical investigation of the visual media and selected video artworks which contributes to the understanding of video as a medium in contemporary art
• The only study specifically devoted to theorizing the medium of video from the perspective of prominent characteristics which result from how video works deal with time, space, representation, and narrative
• The text has emerged out of the author's own lectures and seminars on video art
• Offers a comparative approach which students find especially useful, offering new perspectives

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 1.86MB

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Autor

Helen Westgeest is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her most recent publication is Photography Theory in Historical Perspective: Case Studies from Contemporary Art (co-authored with Hilde Van Gelder, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Westgeest is also editor and a contributor of Take Place: Photography and Place from Multiple Perspectives (2009) and joint editor of Photography between Poetry and Politics (with Hilde Van Gelder, 2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118475485
• Artikelnr.: 42739274