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Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in
late-twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform
video into an art medium. This book reflects on Paik s working
method as well as the ideas and materials that inspired his art
practice. It highlights the centrality of process and exploration
across his career through seminal pieces from the early 1960s to
the late-style painted TVs, large-scale sculptures, and drawings
and provides an opportunity to follow Paik s lifelong engagement
with new media and the development of his own visual language.
Highlights include Paik s painted sections of the Berlin Wall
(2005); Beuys Projection (1990), Paik s powerful video
interpretation of his performance with Joseph Beuys in Tokyo; and
his celebrated One Candle, Candle Projection (1988-2000), a live
video installation of candlelight. The book features an essay by
John G. Hanhardt, one of the foremost scholars of Paik s work.
Extensive illustrations include numerous full-page plates and
details, as well as rarely seen archival photographs of Paik by
Peter Moore (1932-1993), dating from 1964 through 1977.
The provocative pop artist's on-screen experiments, newly brought
to light in this essential reference work In the 1960s, Andy Warhol
(1928-1987) produced hundreds of film and video works-short and
long, silent and sound, scripted and improvised. This catalogue
raisonne of the artist's films, a complement to 2006's Andy Warhol
Screen Tests, focuses on works he produced from 1963 to 1965.
Detailed cataloguing of each work is combined with orienting and
enlightening essays that cover Warhol's influences, source
material, working methods, and technical innovations, as well as
his engagement with the people he filmed and how they came to life
on the screen. In addition, rich entries offer detailed summaries
and analysis of more than a hundred individual works. The vigorous
illustration program includes countless stills and documentary
images to further elucidate the film works, including many that
have circulated only rarely. Warhol's dynamic and creative approach
to filmmaking redefined the genre, drawing audiences and receiving
positive attention along with deep criticism. In 1970, he placed
his films in storage for the next 14 years, taking them out of
public view and distribution. During that time, critics and
audiences could only piece together information about these works
from hearsay, verbal accounts, and reviews. Since then, the works
have been studied, preserved, and catalogued, culminating in this
volume, which illuminates the true significance of Warhol's radical
experiments in film and his mastery of the medium. Distributed for
the Whitney Museum of American Art
Bill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation
artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a
decades-long investigation into the human imagination and its
various states of consciousness. This unique and accessible guide
to Viola's work provides new insights into the artist's creative
processes by drawing on his own writing, as well as texts that have
inspired his creative vision. John G. Hanhardt, an expert on Bill
Viola, explores how the artist's work relates to literature,
philosophy, poetry, and mysticism. Kira Perov, Viola's wife,
artistic collaborator, and the manager of his studio, offers her
own intimate insights into his work and studio production.
Beautifully illustrated, this book imparts a fresh take on Viola's
art, originality, and celebrated creativity.
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