Modern art, reflecting and defining new intellectual, scientific, and technological developments, has radically
extended the conventional media of sculpture and painting. Following innovative ideas about representation and
the free use of materials in cubism, futurism, and surrealism--particularly in the work of Duchamp--artists abandoned
strict adherence to traditional hierarchies of media and embraced any means, including technological, which best
served their purposes. In the past fifty years especially, ideas about time and duration have reinstated narrative
in art, via filmmaking and video, the theatricality of happenings, performance and installation art, digitally
manipulated photography, and virtual reality.
This pioneering book, originally published in 1999 under the title New Media in Late 20th-Century Art, discusses
the most influential artists internationally--from Eadweard Muybridge to Robert Rauschenberg, Bill Viola, and Pipilotti
Rist--and those seminal works that have radically transformed the map of world art. For this new and expanded edition,
the book has been brought completely up to date to include the latest in digital work as technology takes art in
new directions. 258 illustrations, 124 in color.
Table of Contents
Media and performance
p. 36
Video art
p. 82
Video installation and art
p. 124
The digital in art
p. 180
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