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Elwes, Catherine

Video art : a guided tour / Catherine Elwes with a foreword by Shirin Neshat - London: I.B. Tauris, [2005] - x, 212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

From the margins to the mainstream -- The modernist inheritance: tampering with the technology, and other interferences -- Disrupting the content: feminism -- Masculinities: class, gay and racial equality -- Language: its deconstruction and the UK scene -- Television spoofs and scratch: parody and other forms of sincere flattery -- Video art on television -- Video sculpture -- The 1990's and the new millennium

Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked - often unknown. This text is a guide to video art and its history, tracing the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the '60s and '70s to today's digital technology.

ISBN: 9781850435464 9781850435464 £14.95

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Video art
Art and Design.
Electronic, holographic & video art