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Title:

AGAINST IMMEDIACY
VIDEO ART AND MEDIA POPULISM

By:

William Kaizen

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Paperback

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1611689457

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9781611689457

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND

Pub. date:

5 July, 2016

Pages:

232

Description:

Reveals the history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. This title examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the people" were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media.

Synopsis:

Against Immediacy is a history of early video art considered in relation to television in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how artists questioned the ways in which "the people" were ideologically figured by the commercial mass media. During this time, artists and organizations including Nam June Paik, Juan Downey, and the Women's Video News Service challenged the existing limits of the one-to-many model of televisual broadcasting while simultaneously constructing more democratic, bottom-up models in which the people mediated themselves. Operating at the intersection between art history and media studies, Against Immediacy connects early video art and the rise of the media screen in gallery-based art to discussions about participation and the activation of the spectator in art and electronic media, moving from video art as an early form of democratic media practice to its canonization as a form of high art.

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25 illustrations

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Dartmouth College Press

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