Istoriia rossiiskogo videoarta, tom 1 / History of Russian video art, vol. 1
Moscow: Moskovskii muzei sovremennogo iskusstva, 2007. Sewn pb. A substantive essay on how video art arose in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and then evolved in the 1990s and early 2000s is followed by entries an individual artists and their experiments in video art. Chapter titles: video as modernist medium: the emergence of video art 1965 to 1980; first instances a video in Russia: Andrei Monastyrskii’s performances for the video camera; the video camera of Boris Yukhananov; The Institute Prometheus; TV madhouse: pirate television; The new Academy of fine arts; Appearance of the first contemporary Art Galleries; The TV gallery and Goa Rigvava; Affirmation of video art; Video and club culture; Moscow actionism; Institutionalization of video as an art form. 181 p., 24 cm, approx. 150 color and b/w illus., Rus. and ENGLISH. Item #2966
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