Installation and the moving image / Catherine Elwes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elwes, Catherine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film installations (Art).

Installations (Art).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Wallflower Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the magic trick of moving pictures. Beginning in the 1960's, artists have explored filmic and televisual phenomena in the controlled environments of galleries and museums, drawing on multiple antecedents in cinema, television, and the visual arts. This volume traces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and video from the 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's.Sound is given due attention, along with the shift from analogue to digital, issues of spectatorship, and the insights of cognitive science. Woven into this genealogy is a discussion of the procedural, political, theoretical, and ideological positions espoused by artists from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Historical constructs such as Peter Gidal's structural materialism, Maya Deren's notion of vertical and horizontal time, and identity politics are reconsidered in a contemporary context and intersect with more recent thinking on representation, subjectivity, and installation art. The book is written by a critic, curator, and practitioner who was a pioneer of British video and feminist art politics in the late 1970's. Elwes writes engagingly of her encounters with works by Anthony McCall, Gillian Wearing, David Hall, and Janet Cardiff, and her narrative is informed by exchanges with other practitioners. While the book addresses the key formal, theoretical, and historical parameters of moving-image installation, it ends with a question: "What's in it for the artist?"

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Architecture

Painting

Sculpture

Performance

Film History

Film as Film

Structural Film: Detractions and Revisions

The Dialectics of Spectatorship

Expanded Cinema

Sound

Video Installation

Closing Thoughts

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 12, 2015).

ISBN:

9780231850803

0231850808

OCLC:

1011438386