Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, beyond the histories of experimental film and video on the one hand, and installation art on the other? What is a projected image, and what is the history of projected-image art? These questions and others are explored in this thoughtful collection of nine essays by leading international scholars of film and projected-image art. Clearly structured in three sections - 'Histories', 'Screen', 'Space' - the book argues for recognition of the projected...
Projected-image art occupies an increasingly important place in the contemporary art-world. But does the projected image have its own specificity, bey...
The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums painting, sculpture, and drawing changed in the twentieth century in response to photography, film, and other technologies. Countering the modernist view that the medium provides advanced art with resistance against technological pressures, Tamara Trodd argues that we should view art and its practices as imaginatively responding to the potential that artists glimpsed in mechanical reproduction, putting art into dialogue with the commercial cultures of its time. The Art of...
The Art of Mechanical Reproduction presents a striking new approach to how traditional art mediums painting, sculpture, and drawing changed in ...