'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. Important issues were to re-think art as a means for critical investigations and a demand for visual reconsiderations. Likewise, art history was argued to be in crisis and in need of adapting its theories and methods in order to produce interpretations and thereby establish historical sense for moving images as fine art. Yet, as this book argues, video art history has evolved into a discourse clinging to traditional concepts, ideologies, and narrative structures - manifested in an increasing body of texts... By engaging art history’s most debated concepts (canon, art, and history) this study provides an in-depth investigation of the mechanisms of the historiography of video art. Scrutinizing various narratives on video art, the book emphasizes the profound and widespread hesitations towards, but also the efforts to negotiate, traditional concepts and practices.
By focusing on the politics of this discourse, theoretical issues of gender, nationality, and particular themes in video art, Malin Hedlin Hayden contests the presumptions that inform video art and its history.' - from book flap.
Includes a bibliography and an index.
By focusing on the politics of this discourse, theoretical issues of gender, nationality, and particular themes in video art, Malin Hedlin Hayden contests the presumptions that inform video art and its history.' - from book flap.
Includes a bibliography and an index.
Alternative title
Studies in Art Historiography
Access level
Onsite
author
publisher
Location code
REF.HAM10
Language
English
Keywords
video art,  art history
Publication/Creation date
2015
No of pages
227
ISBN / ISSN
9781472449757
No of copies
1
Content type
monograph
Chapter headings
Introduction
Hesitantly Art: Great Expectations of a Medium
Art History or Not: Stories of Reluctance and Crisis
Canon: An Unresolved Issue
Compulsive Categorizations: Gender and Heritage
And Also: Making Stories, Thinking Through Thematic Space
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