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The Art of Bill Viola (Paperback)
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The American video and installation artist Bill Viola is one of the
most popular artists in the world today. Significantly, at a time
when an artist's importance is often conferred by small groups of
experts and cognoscenti, Viola's rich imagery touches a nerve with
large international audiences. His is an art of everyman; work that
is profoundly spiritual and never afraid to make the big statement.
That statement is often about human life and its relation to the
universe, to the soul and human spirit, to nature and to death.
Viola is one of those rare artists whose work makes us aware of our
nature as human beings. He returns art to what were once its
fundamental concerns and gives it a relevance to the emotional and
spiritual lives of ordinary people. But despite his interest in
`old-fashioned' values, his art is also an art of our time. The
work is produced with the most innovative, most modern of media:
high speed film, high-definition video, sophisticated recording and
relation of sound and image, are put to use in ways that challenge
the intellectual and artistic traditions of the last one hundred
and fifty years. In this volume eminent critics examine the scope
of the artist's creations in an extensive appraisal of his work
since the 1970s. Their themes include the relationship of Viola's
art to the religious traditions of both Asia and Europe, the use of
space as metaphor within his installations, the use of sound in his
work, and the impact of his exhibitions upon other artists. These
essays demonstrate Viola's uniqueness and importance as an artist
of enduring, international reputation, and for the first time allow
us to properly assess his place within art history.
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