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212 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 book is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history. Elwes, herself a pioneer of early video, traces the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the '60s and '70s to today's digital technology, from early experiments in 'real time' to the 'new narrative' movement of the 1980s. She also examines video's love-hate relationship with television, from its literal destruction in 'scratch' video to its apparent absorption into the mainstream with works commissioned by Channel Four. Throughout its forty-year history, video has been allied to self-portraiture, landscape, painting and sculpture and has been co-opted as a political tool. Artists discussed include amongst many others Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover, The Duvet Brothers, Dara Birnbaum, Bill Viola, Pipilloti Rist, David Hall, Stuart Marshall, Shirin Neshat, Smith & Stewart, Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood.<br> </p><strong style='display: block;'><a onclick='javascript:openTab('edreviews')' href='#TABS' class='left-arrow-small'>More Reviews and Recommendations</a></strong><h3>Biography</h3><p><b>Catherine Elwes</b> is a practicing video artist and teaches at Camberwell College of Art, the London Institute. She is Director of the UK/Canadian Video festival.<br> Art, Modern; Video art Indonesia 9789791975506 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 791.45 MUR Esa 4783 C2O library & collabtive (Art & Design) 8000 4664 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated