Video Art Historicized: Traditions and Negotiations

ISBN-13: 9781138563209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Malin Hedlin Hayden

Opis

Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion. Video Art Historicized provides a novel, insightful and also challenging re-interpretation of this field by examining the discourse and its own premises. It takes a firm conceptual approach to the material, examining the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological implications that are simultaneously contested by both artists and authors, yet intertwined in both the legitimizing and the historicizing processes of video as art.

Recenzje

"In Video Art Historicized:Traditions and Negotiations, Malin Hedin Hayden, a professor at Stockholm University, pinpoints another pitfall, involving a gap between a praxis that has always sought to usher in the notion of art and a historiography which has not managed to get away from the usual concepts in order to grasp it, reincluding video art within the framework of a traditional history of art." -- Geraldine Sfez, Critique d'art

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Hesitantly Art; Chapter 2 Art History or Not; Chapter 3 Canon; Chapter 4 Compulsive Categorizations; Chapter 5 And Also;

O autorze

Malin Hedlin Hayden is Associate Professor in Art History, the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.