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A History of Video Art
The Development of Form and Function
July 2006
256pp
bibliog, index, 30 colour and 70 bw illus
Chris Meigh-Andrews
Hardback
£55.00
ISBN 184520218X

Paperback
£19.99
ISBN 1845202198

Book Description
Video Art is a critical introduction and guide to artists' video in both Europe and North America. It covers the period from the early 1960s - when video art first appeared as a distinctive medium - into the 1990s, when digital technology merged video's distinctive practice with that of independent film-making and photography.

This artistic history is also a technological and a cultural history. And Video Art sets its analysis of artistic practice firmly within the context of both the development of electronic imaging technology and the changing political and social climate.

Richly illustrated, Video Art is essential reading for anyone interested in art history and contemporary art practice.

About the author(s)
Chris Meigh-Andrews is Reader in Electronic Digital Art at the University of Central Lancashire. A practising artist specialising in electronic digital media, he has been exhibiting internationally for almost 30 years.
Contents
PART 1: THE ORIGINS OF VIDEO ART: THE HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
1. In The Beginning: The Origins of Video Art
2. Backgrounds Contexts: The Social and Political Context in Europe and North America and its Relationship to the Development of Video Art.
3. Expanded Cinema: The Influence of Experimental Avant-Garde Underground Film.
4. Musique Concrete, Fluxus and Tape Loops: The Influence of Sound Recording and Experimental Music.
5. Theory and Practice: The Impact of Theoretical Ideas on Technology-Based Practice.
6. Beyond the Lens: Abstract Video Imagery and Image Processing

PART 2: A DISCUSSION OF SOME REPRESENTATIVE/ INFLUENTIAL VIDEO ART WORKS
7. In and Out of the Studio: The Advent of Non-Broadcast Video.
8. Cutting It: Accessible Video Editing.
9. Mixing It: Electronic/Digital Image Manipulation.
10. The Gallery Opens It's Doors: Video Installation and Projection

PART 3: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTS' VIDEO IN RESPONSE TO TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND ACCESSIBILITY
11. Fields, Lines Frames: Video as an Electronic Medium.
12. The Means of Production: Feminism, Race, Gender- Technology and Access.
13. Off the Wall: Video Sculpture and Installation.
14. Going Digital: The Emergence of Digital Video Processing and Effects.
15. The End of Video Art? Convergence: the Blurring of the Boundaries Between Film and Video.

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