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Gale should be commended as one of the first critics to write about video art in Canada.... Videotexts provides an excellent introduction and raises questions which could serve as the basis for further research.
Book Description
When the video camera first appeared on the market, artists hailed the newly available equipment as the new pencil, the better canvas, the best eye of all. The medium was exciting and revolutionary: low-cost and low-tech; "everybody" was curious as galleries and museums hastened to program new video works in festivals and exhibitions. However, little aesthetic or critical material was available on either artists or issues.
Videotexts is an invaluable collection of essays -- a comprehensive guide to Canadian video artists and their works. The essays focus on important individual tapes and artists and on the development of narrative forms: to construct meaning and confirm memory. Revised and updated, they offer a "present-tense" assessment of key works from the last twenty-five years, and of artists' ideas and processes as they were unfolding.
Videotexts
Videotexts,Peggy Gale,Wilfrid Laurier University Press,0889202524,20th century,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Art, Canadian,Canada,History - General,Multi-Media Art,Video Performance And Production,Video art
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