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	Illuminating Video: An essential guide to video art Author: Doug Hall, Sally Jo Fifer Editorial: Aperture Description:	Buy here
	A collection of 41 essays by American video artists, scholars, and critics illuminating the complex, heterogeneous nature of video art and its ties to the visual arts and contemporary culture. Helps to provide a critical basis and context for understanding video's role as art and in society.

	Video Art Author: Michael Rush Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	Abundantly illustrated with frames and sequences, the book offers a history of the medium seen from the multiple perspectives of its early practitioners, through the vast array of conceptual, political, and lyrical installations of the 1980s and 1990s, to the present revolution of digital technology.

	A history of experimental film and video Author: A. L. Rees Editorial: British Film Institute Description:	Buy here
	The book tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art. It also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse. This is the first major history of avant-garde film and video to be published, ranging from Cézanne, dada, and Brakhage, to the new wave of British video artists in the 90s.

	Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader Author: Wheeler Dixon Editorial: Routledge Description:	Buy here
	The book brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists, examining the work of key practitioners and recovering neglected filmmakers. Focused on the ways in which underground films have explored important social issues and foreground technical innovations such as Super 8mm and video.

	Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film Author: Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel Editorial: The MIT Press Description:	Buy here
	This book, which accompanies an exhibition organized by the ZKM Institute for Visual Media, explores the history and significance of pre-cinema and of early experimental cinema, as well as the development of the unique theaters in which "immersion" evolved.

	Digital Art (World of Art) Author: Christiane Paul Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	The book explores themes addressed and raised by the art, such as viewer interaction, political and social activism, networks, and telepresence, as well as issues such as the collection and preservation of digital art, the virtual museum, ownership and copyright. All lmajor key artists and their works are discussed.

	New Media in Art (2nd Edition) Author: Michael Rush Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	An overview of artists' use of new technology and an excellent introduction to new media art. 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 the works that have radically transformed the map of world art.

	The New Media Reader Author: Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort Editorial: The MIT Press Description:	Buy here
	This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs - many of them now almost impossible to find - that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art; e.g. a documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art installation.

	Video Art (Basic Art) Author: Joshua Decter Editorial: Taschen Description:	Buy here
	The body of the book contains a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work, a reference work, portrait of the artist, quotes, and biographical information.

	Video Art: A Guided Tour Author: Catherina Elwes, Shirin Neshat Editorial: I. B. Tauris & Company Description:	Buy here
	This book is an essential and highly entertaining guide to video art and its history, examining video's love-hate relationship with television, from its literal destruction in "scratch" video to its apparent absorption into the mainstream with works commissioned by Channel Four. Artists discussed include amongst many others Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Pipilloti Rist, David Hall, Shirin Neshat, and Sam Taylor-Wood.

	Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artists Interviews Author: Kate Horsfield, Lucas Hilderbrand Editorial: Temple University Press Description:	Buy here
	The first printed catalog of the Video Data Bank's complete holdings, Feedback offers readers essays on the history of media arts, the Video Data Bank, video activism, experimental performance art, and the On Art and Artists Collection. It includes 325 frame grabs and stills from some of the collection's most important pieces and outlines the styles and directions taken by artists throughout the entire history of video art.

	New Media in Art (Basic Art) Author: Mark Tribe, Reena Jana, Uta Grosenick Editorial: Taschen Description:	Buy here
	This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement, focusing not only on technologies and forms but also on thematic content and conceptual strategies. It includes a detailed introduction with approximately 30 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, sporting, etc.) that took place during the time period.

	Art of the Digital Age Author: Bruce Wands Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	The book traces the history of digital art from its beginnings in the 1960s to its full emergence in the 1990s. A reference section includes a time line of milestones in digital art, both artistic and technological, an extensive bibliography, a glossary, and a list of artists' Web sites and online art projects.

	At the Edge of Art Author: Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	A dizzying array of artworks by over fifty creators, illustrated in a dynamic design that challenges conventional art publications.

	Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Author: Anthony Huberman, Alanna Heiss, Glenn D. Lowry Editorial: P.S. 1 Description:	Buy here
	Video Acts provides a historical overview of video art created for display on a single monitor, with more than 100 pieces, dating from the mid-60s through 2000, including numerous landmarks by Marina Abramovic, Gilbert & George, Acconci, Jonas, and Nauman, as well as more recent work by Tony Oursler, Darren Almond, Pipilotti Rist, and others redefining the genre.

	Fast Forward: Media Art: Sammlung Goetz Author: Ingvild Goetz, Stephan Urbaschek Editorial: Ingvild Goetz Description:	Buy here
	Fast Forward is a hefty, thorough reference guide, and a virtual catalogue raisonné of the medium, featuring works from the Goetz Collection. Over 180 film and video works by almost 80 international artists are represented and the book is rounded off with introductory essays by Peter Weibel, Stephan Urbaschek, and others, plus short essays on individual artists.

	Black Women Film and Video Artists Author: J. Bobo Editorial: Routledge Description:	Buy here
	Black Women Film & Video Artists is a long-overdue anthology that documents the underacknowledged, yet significant, accomplishments of women filmmakers, scholars, and film technicians.

	By the Skin of their Tongues Author: Steve Reinke, Nelson Henricks Editorial: Yyz Description:	Buy here
	Seventeen expanded video scripts by artists such as Colin Campbell, Tom Sherman and Cathy Sisler accompanied by eight essays on the differences between video as video and video as it appears in print.

	Artists' Video: An International Guide Author: Lori Zippay Editorial: Cross River Press Description:	Buy here
	Guide to International Video Artists

	A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function Author: Chris Meigh-Andrews Editorial: Berg Publishers Description:	Buy here
	A critical introduction to video art in Europe and North America covering the period from the early 1960s -- when video art first appeared as a distinctive medium -- into the 1990s, when video through digital technology with independent film-making and photography. Richly illustrated, Video Art is essential reading for anyone interested in art history and contemporary art practice.

	Art of Digital Video Author: John Watkinson Editorial: Focal Press Description:	Buy here
	An analysis of everything relating to digitally encoding pictures, from conversion of analogue signals into digital code, through to recording, editing and processing.

	Video Art: The Castello di Rivoli Collection Author: Ida Gianelli, Marcella Beccaria Editorial: Skira Description:	Buy here
	An indispensable instrument in understanding video art, this volume offers a panoramic view of the history of this medium and the major artists in the collection active on the international scene, including Joseph Beuys, Fluxus, Bruce Nauman, William Kentridge, Tony Oursler, Martha Rosler, Sophie Calle, Bill Viola, Robert Wilson, to name a few.

	Video Culture: A Critical Investigation Author: John G. Hanhardt Editorial: Gibbs Press Description:	Buy here
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	Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China Author: Wu Hung, Christopher Phillips Editorial: Smart Museum of Modern Art Description:	Buy here
	Essays by Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung examine the recent history and current status of visual art in China. Often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, the works featured in this book encompass a wide range of highly individual responses to the massive and unprecedented political, economic, and social changes China has undergone during the past decade.

	New Artists Video: A Critical Anthology Author: Gregory Battcock Editorial: Penguin Group Description:	Buy here
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	Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Production Author: Willie Doherty, Gary Hill, Bruce Naumann, et al. Editorial: Buffalo Fine Arts Albright Knox Art Gallery Description:	Buy here
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	Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video Author: Stefano Basilico, Lawrence Lessig, et al. Editorial: Milwaukee Art Museum Description:	Buy here
	CUT explores the actions through which artists create videos. Through the physical manipulation of the most familiar of media, they restructure reality, making the familiar unfamiliar and instilling the opportunity to comprehend and distinguish a new reality. Included are works by Candice Breitz, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Marclay, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, and Paul Pfeiffer.

	Lux: A Decade of Artists Film and Video Author: Tom Taylor, Steve Reinke Editorial: Yyz Description:	Buy here
	Conceived as a primary resource on artist film and video culture in Canada in the 90s, this critical and visual anthology fills a significant void in Canadian media arts publishing. Nearly one third of the book is devoted to artists' projects, a unique opportunity for a number of Canada's most significant media artists to publish a bookwork. Contributors include Colin Campbell, Nelson Henricks, and Barbara Goslawski.

	Video Art: An Anthology Author: Ira Schneider, Beryl Korot Editorial: Harcourt Description:	Buy here
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	Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture Author: Sean Cubitt Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan Description:	Buy here
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	The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970-1985 Author: Ruth Bellinkx, Anne Van Driel, et al. Editorial: NAI Publishers Description:	Buy here
	After the successful introduction of the video in the United States, Europe followed suit with the Netherlands playing a pioneering role. The book explores the video-art circuit in the Netherlands which evolved thanks to a cross-fertilization of local and international tendencies, and thanks to the provision of workshop facilities by institutions like Het Lijnbaanscentrum, Jan van Eijck Akademie, and Monte Video.

	The Art of Bill Viola Author: Chris Townsend Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	In The Art of Bill Viola eminent critics examine the scope of the artist's creations since the 1970s. Their studies include the relationship of Viola's art to the religious traditions of both Asia and Europe, the use of space as metaphor within his installations, the use of sound in his work, and the impact of its exhibition upon other video artists.

	The Worlds of Nam June Paik Author: Nam June Paik, John G. Hanhardt Editorial: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New Ed Edition Description:	Buy here
	Written to accompany an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, this catalog presents an excellent overview of Paik!s involvement with the New York artworld of the Sixties, of his increasing fame as a designer of freestanding video sculpture, and of the numerous video works.

	Gary Hill Author: Robert C. Morgan Editorial: The John Hopkins University Press Description:	Buy here
	This book anthologizes a number of critical essays tracing Hill's reception from the mid-seventies to today, a series of informative interviews, as well as a selection of Hill's writings--revealing him as an original and articulate thinker. The book also offers a detailed chronology of Hill's career, a bibliography and videography, and twenty-five photos from his installations.

	Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making Author: Stan Brakhage, Bruce R. McPherson Editorial: McPherson Description:	Buy here
	With this anthology, the publisher offers generous excerpts from two out-of-print Brakhage books, Metaphors on Vision and Brakhage Scrapbook, plus a sampling of recent writings.

	Vito Acconci: Building an Island Author: Vito Acconci, Linker Editorial: Hatje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	Linker, an independent critic, elucidates the concepts behind the varied but consistently provocative work of Vito Acconci, one of the most influential artists of the last 20 years. The highly diverse body of work produced by Acconci, an American visual artist best known for his darkly comic, masochistic performances and installations of the 1970s, is usefully surveyed in this comprehensive mid-career retrospective.

	Doug Aitken Author: Daniel Birnbaum Editorial: Phaidon Press Description:	Buy here
	In the Survey, curator and critic Daniel Birnbaum sets Aitken's art within the context of contemporary philosophy and the work of other recent artists who have explored expanded notions of time and space and discusses the artist's working methods. For the book section "Artist's Choice" Aitken has selected a short story by Jorge Luis Borges whose description of altered realities echoes the artist's own interests.

	Artist Body: Performances 1969-1998 Author: Marina Abramovic, Velimir Abramovic, Jan Avigkos Editorial: Charta Description:	Buy here
	Collection of performances by Marina Abramovic from 1969-1998

	Aernout Mik: Dispersion Room Reversal Room Author: Aernout Mik, Kasper Konig Editorial: Verlag Walther Konig Description:	Buy here
	Essays about Mik Aernout and two of his newest and most important works showing absurd film scenes on a backscreen foregrounded by an actual identical scene: illusion vs. reality. The grotesque, amusing, and at the same time serious films deal with the behavior of people in a group, highlighting their actions, interactions, and reactions.

	The Cinematic Works of Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Slipcase Author: Eija-Liisa Ahtila Editorial: Distributed Art Pub Inc Description:	Buy here
	This volume on the cinematic works of Ahtila aims not only to introduce the spectator to her narrative-driven psychological films but also to consider the working process of an artist and filmmaker.

	John Baldessari: Life's Balance, Works 84-04 Author: John Baldessari Editorial: Verlag Walther Konig Description:	Buy here
	Weighing what is art and what is not art and piling both on a canvas has been John Baldessari's seesaw practice throughout his career. Over the past 20 years, as this retrospective shows, his narrative and formal experiments have had a sophistication and playfulness in his use of manipulated imagery and, most recently, painterly color that remain vitally questioning.

	Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle Author: Matthew Barney, Nancy Spector Editorial: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New Ed Edition Description:	Buy here
	Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary and offer interviews with key collaborators revealing his working process. The definitive user's guide, The Cremaster Cycle is filled with images and surveys the project, which uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point.

	Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings Author: Vanessa Beecroft, Malcolm Green Editorial: Hatje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	The artist's provocative tableaux are accompanied in this book by the drawings and backstage Polaroids she uses in planning her often-disturbing performances. Includes an extensive interview with Beecroft, which touches on topics informing her work, including men, anorexia, exercise, family, film, and beauty.

	The Essential Joseph Beuys Author: Alain Borer Editorial: The MIT Press Description:	Buy here
	Borer's book presents itself as a catalog of an imaginary exhibition that collects 152 of the artist's most important works in all media covering his four active decades. Borer's introductory essay energetically lays the bio-philosophical context for the works and it also contains new essays and other additions from curators at the American museums.

	Rough Edits: Popular Image Video Works 1977-1980 Author: Dara Birnbaum Editorial: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and De Description:	Buy here
	Rough Edits includes Norman M. Klein's essay "Audience Culture and the Video Screen" and transcripts of Birnbaum's New York interviews with video art distributors, staff at a non-profit alternative space, and curators responsible for successfully introducing video arts into two traditional high art institutions.

	Candice Breitz: Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Author: Marcella Beccaria Editorial: Skira Description:	Buy here
	Breitz employs a variety of darkly humorous and often disturbing tactics to strike out at stereotypes and visual conventions in the media and in popular culture. Conceived specifically for Castello di Rivoli in Turin, Mother + Father questions the canon of beliefs about parents that television and movies have trained the public to accept on a screen—deeply personal aspects of our lives that must be seen against a ground of real life.

	Sophie Calle: Did you see me? Author: Christine Macel, Ive-Alain Bois, et al. Editorial: Prestel Publishing Description:	Buy here
	The book presents Calle's best-known works, including The Blind, No Sex Last Night, The Hotel, The Address Book and A Woman Vanishes, as well as lesser known and earlier projects that have largely escaped the public eye. The book also includes diary excerpts and video stills, along with three critical essays, a revealing interview with the artist and a dialogue with fellow artist Damien Hirst.

	Peter Campus: Selected Works 1973-1987 Author: David S. Rubin, Judith Tannenbaum Editorial: Freedman Gallery Description:	Buy here
	Selected works from 1973-1987

	David Claerbout Author: David Green Editorial: Verlag Walther Konig Description:	Buy here
	At first glance, David Claerbout's poetic video installations appear as static as slide projections. In time, however, one notices that the space inside the pictures is moving. This book focuses on the reliability of reality, and is a documentation and a catalogue raisonné of Claerbout's photography and video work.

	Stan Douglas Author: Editors of Phaidon Press Editorial: Phaidon Press Description:	Buy here
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	The Art of Tracey Emin Author: Mandy Merck, Chris Townsend, Tracey Emin Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	In The Art of Tracey Emin, critics address her achievement in depth for the first time and establish her place in a larger tradition of postmodern and feminist art. Adopting various approaches, the contributors explore Emin's work, from photography to installation art and videos, showing that it represents a carefully meditated response to vital issues in contemporary culture and society.

	VALIE EXPORT: Fragments of Imagination Author: Roswitha Mueller Editorial: Indiana University Press Description:	Buy here
	Women Artists in Film

	Yang Fudong Author: Yang Fudong, Bert Rebhandl, Sabine Folie Editorial: Verlag Walther Konig Description:	Buy here
	This survey of Yang Fudongís films traces the artistís evolving understanding of his homeland and explores the frisson between Chinaís traditions and its ever-accelerating future.

	Jean-Luc Godard Author: Douglas Murrey Editorial: Manchester University Press Description:	Buy here
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	Dominique Foerster-Gonzalez Author: Stephanie Moisdon-Trembley Editorial: Hazan Description:	Buy here


	Double-Cross: The Hollywood films of Douglas Gordon Author: Douglas Gordon, Philip Monk Editorial: Art Gallery of York University/The Power Plan Description:	Buy here
	This first monograph on British artist Douglas Gordon analyses all of the artist's video projection installations based on his appropriations of Hollywood film noir or Hitchcock films, examining his language works as well. Counter to the usual interpretations of his work as a dichotomy between good and evil, Double-Cross argues that it is all about dissemblance, with the dichotomy only one deception among others.

	Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway Author: Alan Woods Editorial: Manchester University Press Description:	Buy here
	Greenaway's assertion that his is 'a cinema of ideas not plots' is developed in this book with discussion of his use of the themes of repetition, quotation theatricality, power relations and images of the nude as flesh. Recent interviews between Greenaway and Alan Woods about his work make this book a must for all Greenaway enthusiasts.

	Rebecca Horn: Body Landscapes Author: Rebecca Horn, Paulo Herkenhoff Editorial: Hatje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	The significance of this representative survey of Rebecca Horn's work - featuring some 25 installations and objects from the past 35 years - is emphasized by its juxtaposition with a selection of roughly 75 works from the artist’s copious graphic oeuvre. Body Landscapes offers readers an unprecedented opportunity to reconstruct the intense and fruitful dialogue between Horn’s graphic works and her objects.

	Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography Author: Barthes Roland Editorial: Hill and Wang (May 1, 1982) Description:	Buy here
	"This is a great book--flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition."--Douglas Davis, Newsweek

	Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century Author: Crary Jonathan Editorial: The MIT Press; Reprint edition Description:	Buy here
	Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle." Jonathan Crary is Assistant Professor of Art History at Columbia University. He is a founding editor of Zone and Zone Books.

	Art as Experience Author: Dewey John Editorial: Perigee Trade Description:	Buy here
	Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.

	Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Author: Foucault Michel Editorial: Vintage; Reprint edition Description:	Buy here
	In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.

	Toward an Aesthetic of Reception Author: JAUSS, Hans Robert Editorial: University of Minnesota Press Description:	Buy here


	Languages of Art Author: GOODMAN Nelson Editorial: Hackett Publishing Company; 2nd edition Description:	Buy here
	Like Dewey, he has revolted against the empiricist dogma and the Kantian dualisms which have compartmentalized philosophical thought. . . Unlike Dewey, he has provided detailed incisive argumentation, and has shown just where the dogmas and dualisms break down.

	Jeffrey Shaw--A User's Manual From Expanded Cinema to Virtual Reality Author: Jeffrey Shaw, Manuela Abel , Anne-Marie Duguet , H Editorial: Hatje Cantz Description:	Buy here
	A User's Manual From Expanded Cinema to Virtual Reality

	Video and Aesthetic of Narcissism Author: KRAUSS Rosalind Editorial: Gregory Battcock New York E.P Description:	Buy here
	“In that image of self-regard is configured a narcissism so endemic to works of video that I find myself wanting to generalize it as the condition of the entire genre.” She focuses on Jacques Lacan’s theory of the mirror stage, almost avoiding entirely Freudian theory that narcissism is related to a fear of death and not so much a discovery of one self. Lacan suggests that in the mirror stage one comes to terms with that realization that they are a construction or object of their own. In regards to video art, like in the mirror stage, the performer is able to see themselves as an object and can lead to a narcissistic obsession.

	The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths Author: KRAUSS Rosalind Editorial: The MIT Press; Reprint edition Description:	Buy here
	In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

	Pierre Huyghe: Float Author: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Editorial: Skira Description:	Buy here
	Castello di Rivoli has organized an ambitious Huyghe retrospective and this catalogue presents all aspects of his oeuvre, including Blanche-Neige Lucie, No Ghost Just a Shell, Sleeptalking, and a new work, Float, created for the show. The catalog includes a broad selection of Huyghe's own writings as well as extracts by other contemporary artists and critics, including a major essay by Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev.

	Joan Jonas: Performances Film Installations 1968-2000 Author: Joan Jonas, Johann-Karl Schmidt, et al. Editorial: Hatje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	Artist Joan Jonas is one of the most groundbreaking pioneers in the fields of video and performance, having worked in these media since the 1960s. This catalogue documents her work with an interview, numerous performance and film stills, installation drawings and photographs, many of them published here for the first time.

	The Film Art of Isaac Julien Author: David Deitcher, David Frankel, et al. Editorial: Bard College Description:	Buy here
	England’s reigning black gay filmmaker offers critical writings and recapitulates his major art and video exhibitions.

	Les Levine: Art Can See Author: Johann-Karl Schmidt, Isabel Gershcat, et al. Editorial: Cantz Editions Description:	Buy here
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	Chris Marker Author: Nora M. Alter Editorial: University of Illinois Description:	Buy here
	Alter's book is invaluable for its biographical information on the reclusive Marker alone, and his insightful exegesis of the director's sprawling career - Marker has also produced art installations, a CD-ROM, poetry, comic strips, and a blog - makes a strong case for the filmmaker's singular importance. A half-dozen brief interviews supplement the text.

	Paul McCarthy Author: Ralph Rugoff Editorial: Phaidon Press Description:	Buy here
	The 1996 monograph from Phaidon Press's "Contemporary Artist" series offers performance scripts, interviews with the artist, and samples of his own writing.

	Bjorn Melhus: Auto Center Drive Author: Bjorn Melhus Editorial: Hatje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	This collection reproduces over 100 of the artist's works - film stills and installation shots included.

	Shirin Neshat Author: Roselee Goldberg, Giorgio Verzotti Editorial: Charta Description:	Buy here
	This monograph documents and provides critical insight into the evolution of her work. Always aesthetically compelling, her work is equally thematically ambiguous but never settling on a simple or singular meaning. Though focused on the particulars of sex segregation and the suppression of women in contemporary Iran, Neshat underscores the relevance of her poetic, disturbing ensembles to a broader culture.

	Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey Author: Tony Oursler, Deborah Menaker Rothschild, et al. Editorial: Williams College Museum of Art Description:	Buy here
	Introjection marks the first mid-career survey of the internationally recognized video artist Tony Oursler. The catalogue traces the evolution of Oursler's career from early single channel videos through his current mixed-media installations and experiments in digital media. Also included are four critical essays, two interviews, an essay by the artist as well as a comprehensive exhibition history and bibliography.

	The Atlas Group & Walid Raad Author: Jalal Toufic Editorial: Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery Description:	Buy here
	Based in Beirut and New York The Atlas Group is a project created by Walid Raad to preserve, study and produce audio, visual and literary artifacts that shed light on the contemporary history of Lebanon. This publication juxtaposes two texts by Lebanese writer Jalal Toufic to a series of photographs and video stills by Walid Raad and The Atlas Group. Accompanied by a multi-page fold out of images from the video, We Can Make the Rain But No One Came To Ask.

	Pipilotti Rist Author: Peggy Phelan Editorial: Phaidon Press Description:	Buy here
	In this book, critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses with Rist the collaborative nature of her work. In the Survey section, Peggy Phelan looks at the many sources behind Rist's art. In the Focus section, theorist Elisabeth Bronfen makes a psychoanalytical study of Rist's portrait of defeat and failure, the 1998 video (Absolutions) Pipilotti's Mistakes.

	Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals Author: Martha Rosler, Inka Schube Editorial: Hatje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	The photographs gathered here--from the 80s to the present--shed light on the many ways in which our routines are governed by social norms. Included are documentary views of the highways and byways of daily life, including roads, subway tunnels, airports, shopping districts, parking lots, and more. This powerful image collection offers critical insight into day-to-day movements within rigidly structured relationships of power.

	Anri Sala Author: Mard Godfrey Editorial: Phaidon Press Description:	Buy here
	The books contains a Survey section by Mark Godfrey, a Focus section by Liam Gillick, and an interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist.

	Smith/Stewart Author: Michele Theriault, Frances McKee Editorial: Ellipsis Arts Description:	Buy here
	Since 1993, Smith/Stewart have produced collaborative works that involve their bodies in a series of sensorially heightened communicative actions. This book documents their work and includes two original essays analyzing their achievements. 80 b/w photographs.

	Fiona Tan: Mirror Maker Author: Martin Hochleitner, Thorsten Sadowsky, Fiona Tan Editorial: Kehrer Verlag Description:	Buy here
	Fiona Tan is one of the most distinctive contemporary artists working in film and video. Her work moves between documentation and fiction, biography and fantasy. In using historical and ethnographic film material, Tan shows portraits of individuals and groups from different cultural backgrounds and social strata. Mirror Maker includes important works dating from the last eight years. Bilingual Edition (English, German).

	Andy Warhol: The Day the Factory Died Author: Christophe von Hohenberg, Charlie Scheips Editorial: Empire Description:	Buy here
	The book is a vibrant record of one of the most exciting eras in New York’s cultural life from the swinging sixties through the increasingly edgy 1970s and up to the heady 1980s that was started in the haze of Studio 54 and ended with the ravages of AIDS. Andy Warhol: The Day The Factory Died is a fitting tribute to the Pop master whose seemingly soulless art was frequently tinged with the pathos of death.

	Artists Talk: 1969-1977 Author: Peggy Gale Editorial: Press of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Description:	Buy here
	An essay by Peggy Gale introduces this transcription of historic talks by internationally known artists. Included are talks by Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, and Alan Sondheim, and Lawrence Weiner. The book reveals artists' concerns during a period bracketed by conceptual art and an international restructuring of power and influence in the art world.

	Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings Author: Kristine Stiles, Peter Selz Editorial: University of California Press Description:	Buy here
	The full panoply of visual media is represented, from painting and sculpture to environments, installations, performance, conceptual art, video, photography, and virtual reality. Thematic concerns range from figuration and process to popular culture, art and technology, and politics and the media. Contemporary issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality are also addressed.

	Media-Art Net 1 Author: Dieter Daniels, Rudolf Frieling Editorial: Springer Description:	Buy here
	This text reader presented together with the Internet art project www.mediaartnet.org, presents a panorama of international media art and its contexts. The book features the most important essays, accompanied online by multimedia and audiovisual representations of media art. Texts are in German and English.

	A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945 Author: Amelia Jones Editorial: Blackwell Publishing Inc. Description:	Buy here
	This ambitious reference work charts the major works and art movements, the most important theoretical developments, and the historical, socio-political, and aesthetic issues since 1945, primarily in the Euro-American context. Bringing together the leading critics and historians from art to comment on the historical and theoretical issues, the book offers new approaches towards the analysis of visual arts in general.

	Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art Author: Julia Knight Editorial: The University of Luton Press Description:	Buy here
	The book attempts to redress the imbalance between the rapid growth of British Video Art and the little analysis or critical recognition it has been given by offering essays that discuss various aspects of British video art within a range of frameworks - historical, theoretical, critical, and chronological. It deals with topics such as television interventions, video installation, video art criticism, and computer animation.

	Moving Layers: Contextual Video in Art and Architecture Author: Alexandro Ladaga Editorial: Chronicle Books Description:	Buy here
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	Outer and Inner Space: Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Neshat, Jane & Louise Wilson, and the History of Video Author: John B. Ravenal Editorial: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Description:	Buy here
	The book explores the interplay in video art between external reality and internal states of mind. Three works -- by Pipilotti Rist, Shirin Seshat, and Jane & Louise Wilson -- are placed in the context of 40 influential works from the late 60s to mid 80s. The pairings underscore the change and continuity in video art, from experimental origins to the use of sophisticated technology to create audiovisual environments.

	Synthetic Reality: Video Art in China Author: Zhu Jia, Ni Haifeng Editorial: Timezone 8 Description:	Buy here
	Synthetic Reality is the most comprehensive media-based or video installation show of its kind in China. Organized by artists instead of curators, it provides true insight into the processes, theories, and ideas behind China's contemporary video artists. Essays by critics Marianne Brouwer and Els Van der Plas further illuminate the works and their context in China and the world.

	40 Years Videoart.de: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany from 1963 to the Present Author: Rudolf Frieling, Wulf Herzogenrath Editorial: Hantje Cantz Publishers Description:	Buy here
	This book - accompanied by a DVD containing excerpts of all featured works and additional materials - tracks 40 years of German video art, from 1963 to the present. It offers a comprehensive overview of historical and current tendencies in video art, via 59 individual artworks. The included texts reflect on current strategies involving moving images and issues of presentation, conservation and restoration.

	Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tapes Author: Deirdre Boyle Editorial: Oryx Press Description:	Buy here


	Invideo 98: Uncommon Places, Luoghi non comuni: Video d'Arte e Ricerca, Experimental and Art Video Author: Charta Editors Editorial: Charta Description:	Buy here


	Basics of Video Sound Author: Des Lyver Editorial: Focal Press Description:	Buy here
	Basics Of Video Sound provides a rapid understanding of what is actually a complex process, without getting too bogged down in technical terms. It includes studio and on-location recording, practical examples for common productions, hints and tips for choosing equipment, and a comprehensive glossary. Focal Press is the preeminent publisher in the field of video production.

	How Video Works Author: Diana Weynand, Marcus Weise Editorial: Focal Press Description:	Buy here
	The book offers to the working video professional or student a complete and thorough guide to understanding how the analog and digital broadcast video signal is captured, recorded, transmitted, and broadcast, and the equipment that supports that process.

	Documenting ourselves: Film, Video, Cultures Author: Sharon R. Sherman Editorial: University of Kentucky Description:	Buy here
	Insightful observations about the epistemological, social, and moral dimensions of making films about cultures. Focused on anthropological aspects.

	Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde 1943-2000 Author: P. Adams Sitney Editorial: Oxford University Press Description:	Buy here
	Critics hailed previous editions of Visionary Film as the most complete work written on the exciting, often puzzling, and always controversial genre of American avant-garde film. Now P. Adams Sitney has updated this classic work, restoring a chapter on the films of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his discussion of the principal genres and major filmmakers up to the year 2000.

	The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place Author: Scott MacDonald Editorial: University of California Press Description:	Buy here
	The book explores the evocations of place that have become a central element in alternative film & video. It analyzes the work of avant-garde filmmakers such as K. Anger, J. Benning, S. Brakhage, and C. Schneemann and reveals the spiritual underpinnings of these works and shows how issues of race, gender, and class are conveyed in an attempt to discover Edenic serenity within the Machine of modern society.

	Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film Author: William C. Wees Editorial: University of California Press Description:	Buy here
	Beginning with the proposition that the images of cinema and vision derive from the same basic elements--light, movement, and time--Wees argues that cinematic apparatus and human visual apparatus have significant properties in common. For that reason they can be brought into a dynamic, creative relationship which the author calls the dialectic of eye and camera.

	Abstract Film and Beyond Author: Malcolm Le Grice Editorial: The MIT Press Description:	Buy here
	Le Grice begins with Cezanne to show how his preoccupation with pictorial space is a key to any understanding of the notion of abstraction. He goes on to discuss the Futurists' cinema, the early abstract film experiments by Eggeling, Duchamp and others in Germany and France of the '20s, the West Coast filmmakers of the '40s, and a stimulating view of the experimental film movement after WW II, including the works of Brakhage, Snow, Gidal and Sharits.

	Derek Jarman: Dreams of England Author: Michael O'Pray Editorial: British Film Institute Description:	Buy here
	Jarman's cinematic achievement and his pivotal role in postwar English culture are at the heart of this study of an enigmatic figure who was a filmmaker and an artist, a gay activist and an English patriot. Michael O'Pray weaves together a compelling account of his life with illuminating analysis of his films, from the home movies through the pop videos to the acclaimed feature films including Caravaggio and Blue.

	New Media in Late 20th Century Art Author: Michael Rush Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	This intelligent survey traces the history of new media in art and includes discussions of video art, digital art, and media and performance by artists such as Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci, Marina Abramowic, Pipilotti Rist, and Bill Viola. Initiated by advances and inventions outside the world of art, technology-based art has directed artists into areas once dominated by engineers and technicians.

	Beyond Form: Architecture and Art in the Space of Media Author: Omar Calderon, Christine Calderon, Peter Dorsey Editorial: Lusitania Press Description:	Buy here
	This book responds to the mediating space of technology, aware that the forms of the future lie within the indeterminate content of cultural production and consumption itself, and not within the ideal of the technological sublime of modernism that had in the past reduced this issue, both performatively and iconographically, to a question of form, function and style.

	Media Art Net 2: Topical Highlights Author: Rudolf Frieling Editorial: Springer Description:	Buy here
	Media Art Net 2 extends the scope of Survey of Media Art Volume 1 by addressing the link between media and art in an international context. It contains contributions from noted essayists such as Inke Arns, Dieter Daniels, Steve Dietz, Rudolf Frieling, Susanne Holschbach, Verena Kuni, Gregor Stemmrich, and Yvonne Volkart.

	The New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative Author: Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp Editorial: British Film Institute Description:	Buy here
	The New Screen Media proposes critical tools for discussing the inner design and immersive effects of the new media forms and their social, political and cultural contexts. It explores creative platforms such as the Internet, Media Installation, CD-ROM and Expanded Cinema. This unique volume comes with a DVD-ROM, featuring extracts from groundbreaking works discussed by leading media theorists.

	Media Art Interaction: The 80s and 90s in Germany Author: Rudolf Frieling, Dieter Daniels Editorial: Springer Description:	Buy here
	This publication covers twenty years of media art in Germany. Also included is a multimedia presentation on CD-ROM. In English and German

	Art Performance Media: 31 Interviews Author: Nicholas & Anthony Zurbrugg Editorial: University of Minnesota Press Description:	Buy here
	The interviews with 31 of the leading multimedia artists in the United States now form a comprehensive record of the most vital component of the postmodern American art world. The book features interviews with Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Beth B, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Philip Glass, Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Steve Reich, Bill Viola, and Ellen Zweig.

	Picture This: Media Representations of Visual Arts and Artists Author: Philip Hayward Editorial: University of Luton Press Description:	Buy here
	With the proliferation of films, television programs, and videos about the arts, this book tackles how these media outlets have approached their subject. It invites debate about the relations between art forms, popular cultural practices, and audiences, as more people receive their understanding of culture and the arts through television than through visits to opera houses, theaters, or art galleries.

	Medien Kunst Aktion/Media Art Action: The 60s and 70s in Germany Author: Rudolf Frieling, Dieter Daniels Editorial: Springer Description:	Buy here
	This book presents the development in German media art, including video, film, TV, music, installations, and painting. Accompanied by a CD-ROM that outlines important eras, artists, key concepts. In German and English.

	Dance on Screen: Genres and Media From Hollywood to Experimental Art Author: Sherril Dodds Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan Description:	Buy here
	Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. The focus is on video dance, dance originally choreographed for the camera. Video dance can be seen as a hybrid in which the theoretical and aesthetic boundaries of dance and television are traversed and disrupted.

	Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology, and Cultural Resistance Author: Dot Tuer Editorial: Yyz Books Description:	Buy here
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	Contemporary Art: ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Author: Heinrich Klotz et al. Editorial: Prestel Description:	Buy here
	Catalogue about the contemporary art collection at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM)

	Performative Realism: Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Media Author: Rune Gade, Anne Jerslev Editorial: Intl. Specialized Book Service Inc. Description:	Buy here
	The essays examine the links between identity and performance, in which becoming the subject is defined more by what one does than by what one is. Topics include the political potential of performance, performance acts in Medea and Dogville and the sense of realis, the work of H. Newman and T. Ostojic, performance in installation art, Gertrude Stein's performance aesthetics, and the nature of role-playing.

	Media Art History: Media Museum: ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Author: Hans-Peter Schwarz Editorial: Prestel Description:	Buy here
	Book about Media Art History, including CD-ROM with illustrations, timelines, etc. In English and German.

	Mona Hatoum Author: Mona Hatoum Editorial: Phaidon Press Description:	Buy here
	This is the first book to document the full breadth of Mona Hatoum's oeuvre, up to and including her most recent projects. Essays by Christoph Heinrich, Volker Adolphs, Richard Julin, Ursula Panhans-Büler, and Nina Zimmer.

	After Modern Art 1945-2000 Author: David Hopkins Editorial: Oxford University Press Description:	Buy here
	This book sets out to provide the first concise interpretation of the period as a whole, clarifying the artists and their works along the way. Closely informed by new critical approaches, it concentrates on the relationship between American and European art from the end of the Second World War to the eve of the new millennium.

	Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music since 1900 Author: Kerry Brougher, Jeremy Strick, et al. Editorial: Thames & Hudson Description:	Buy here
	The most complete examination of this phenomenon to date, Visual Music features ninety major works of art plus related documentation, focusing on abstract and mixed-media art and the connections to musical forms as varied as classical, jazz, and electronic. The book includes three scholarly essays, each discussing a distinct art historical period in depth.

	Visual Thinking Author: Rudolf Arnheim Editorial: University of California Press Description:	Buy here
	For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers alike. In this seminal work, Arnheim asserts that all thinking (not just thinking related to art) is basically perceptual in nature, and that the ancient dichotomy between seeing and thinking, between perceiving and reasoning, is false and misleading.

	DESTRICTED Author: Larry Clark & artists compilation Editorial: Revolver Entertainment Description:	Buy here
	Destricted is the first short film collection of its kind, bringing together sex and art in a series of short films created by some of the world’s most visual and provocative artists and directors: Larry Clark, Gaspar Noé, Sam Taylor-Wood, Matthew Barney, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla and Marina Abramovic. Explicit in content they reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves sexually. Formed in 2004, Destricted is a platform for all forms of uncensored artistic expression; manipulating and embracing the expression of sex through art.

	Ars Electronica 2007 Author: onrad Becker, Ralf Bendrath, Brian Holmes, Viktor Editorial: Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf, Description:	Buy here
	Goodbye Privacy At any time or place, we are capable of switching into telematic action, of reaching anyone and being accessed by all. With the help of our avatars, blogs, and taggings, we assume digital form and adopt more or less imaginative second identities.

	Ars Electronica 2006 Author: Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf Editorial: Hatje Cantz Verlag Description:	Buy here
	SIMPLICITY - the art of complexity Simplicity … the wishful pipedream of a society overwhelmed by technical revolutions, global networks, and inundations of information from the mass media, the mantra of a new generation of user-centered information designers, the ideology of technophobic naysayers to progress, and, up to now, the empty promise of IT producers ….

	CyberArts 2006 - International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica Author: Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried St Editorial: Hatje Cantz Verlag Description:	Buy here
	Since 1987, the year of its inception, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as a barometer for trends in the digitals arts. It is also the award offering the highest prize money for cyberarts worldwide. Geared towards topical issues, it documents the shift in societal and artistic approaches, perspectives and designs brought about by communications and information media.

	CyberArts 2007 - International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica Author: Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried St Editorial: Hatje Cantz Verlag Description:	Buy here
	Ever since the Prix Ars Electronica was founded in 1987, the world’s highest endowed cyberarts prize has been an annual barometer of trends in digital creativity and has repeatedly proven to be a trailblazer in the discovery of artistic innovation. Forty internationally renowned experts evaluate thousands of submissions in the Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Digital Musics, Interactive Art, Hybrid Art, and Digital Communities categories, as well as the u19 - freestyle computing competition for young people.

	Willie Doherty - Anthology of Time-Based Works Author: ilmaz Dziewior, Matthias Mühling Editorial: Hatje Cantz Verlag Description:	Buy here
	Willie Doherty (*1959 in Derry) works with photography, video, and sound installations. Many of his narratives question the capacity of certain aspects of visual representation to convey the truth, a quality supposedly possessed by contemporary media. Doherty’s works occupy the narrow void between documentary and staged compositions, reflecting a world that is shaped by television news, the fantasies spun in movies, tourist-oriented information, popular stereotypes, and collective memory. The heated conflict in Ireland also repeatedly appears as a subtext throughout Doherty’s oeuvre.

	Hans Op de Beeck - Extensions Author: Editorial: Hatje Cantz Verlag Description:	Buy here
	In 2007, multidisciplinary visual artist Hans Op de Beeck (*1969 in Turnhout) mounted a traveling exhibition called Extensions, which comprised video work, stage design, installations, sculptures, photographs, and drawings. This book documents the exhibition and also contains Spa, a short story inspired by it, written from the perspective of an eighty-year-old man looking back on his life during a forced stay at a spa resort for the elderly. The

	Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection Author: Joachim Jäger, Gabriele Knapstein, Anette Hüsch Editorial: Hatje Cantz Description:	Buy here
	Films, Videos and Installations from 1963 to 2005. The publication examines the history of film and video art with a focus on projections in the exhibition space. A dialogue involving contemporary works by artists such as Pipilotti Rist, Rodney Graham, and Eija-Liisa Ahtila and older works from the 1960s and ‘70s by Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Graham, and VALIE EXPORT, makes it obvious how much thematic focus as well as technical and artistic arrangements have changed over the decades.

	A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004 Author: David Curtis Editorial: British Film Institute; illustrated edition editio Description:	Buy here
	This major new book is the first comprehensive history of artists' film and video in Britain. Structured in two parts ('Institutions' and 'Artists and Movements'), it considers the work of some 300 artists, including Kenneth Macpherson, Basil Wright, Len Lye, Humphrey Jennings, Margaret Tait, Jeff Keen, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Gidal, William Raban, Chris Welsby, David Hall, Tamara Krikorian, Sally Potter, Guy Sherwin, Lis Rhodes, Derek Jarman, David Larcher, Steve Dwoskin, James Scott, Peter Wollen and Laura Mulvey, Peter Greenaway, Patrick Keiller, John Smith, Andrew Stones, Jaki Irvine, Tracy Emin, Dryden Goodwin, and Stephanie Smith and Ed Stewart. Written by the leading authority in the field, A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004 brings to light the range and diversity of British artists' work in these mediums as well as the artist-run organizations that have supported the art form's development. In so doing it greatly enlarges the scope of any understanding of "British cinema" and demonstrates the crucial importance of the moving image to British art history.

	The Art of Destruction: The Films of the Vienna Action Group Author: Stephen Barber Editorial: Creation Books; annotated edition edition (March 1 Description:	Buy here
	The films of the Vienna Action Group form the essential residue, debris, and evidence of their performances. For the first time, this book focuses on those films as fully revealing the obsessions, ambitions, and outrages of the Action Group. Fully illustrated and annotated, this is a book of compelling interest to all students of film, art, and performance, and for all readers engaged with questioning social and corporate cultures.

	The Undercut Reader Author: Michael Mazière and Nina Danino Editorial: Wallflower Press Description:	Buy here
	The Undercut Reader is a collection of writing and visual works drawn from Undercut, the only U.K. magazine dedicated to artists' film and video between 1980 to 1990, combined with newly commissioned articles by leading critics in the field. Undercut critically explored the aesthetics and politics of film and video practices within the context of visual arts and independent cinema.

	Len Lye Author: Roger Horrocks Editorial: Auckland University Press Description:	Buy here
	The life of an extraordinary New Zealander told for the first time. A charismatic personality Lye was a major New Zealand artist and a leading figure in international modernism who lived in London and New York but always retained a South Pacific energy and informality. There is a growing interest in his work and it is well illustrated in this book.

	Film Art Phenomena Author: Nicky Hamlyn Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan Description:	Buy here
	"Alongside the commercial cinema of narrative and spectacle there has always been another practice--call it avant-garde, experimental, or artists' film. In this provocative book, Nicky Hamlyn, an acclaimed filmmaker in the alternative tradition, investigates the film art phenomenon. Taking cues from modern trends in other artforms, notably painting and sculpture, this type of filmmaking emphasizes the nature of its apparatus and medium in order to bring about a critical, inquisitive state of mind in the viewer. It deconstructs, anatomizes, and reimagines what film images are; it builds new machines; it recreates the setting of cinema or expands into new kinds of performance and exhibition. And it often has a political dimension--urging audiences to make a free and active response,not a passive, consumerist one. Hamlyn treats artists' film conceptually in order to explore key categories that connect different works and filmmakers: from framing to digital media, installation to interactivity, point of view, to sound. In so doing he considers the work of Stan Brakhage, Malcolm Le Grice, and Michael Snow, as well as younger artists such as Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Jennifer Nightingale, and Colin Crockatt, among many others."

	Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology Author: Edited by Jackie Hatfield Editorial: John Libbey Publishing Description:	Buy here
	The past 40 years of technological innovation have significantly altered the materials of production and revolutionized the possibilities for experiment and exhibition. Not since the invention of film has there been such a critical period of major change in the imaging technologies accessible to artists. Bringing together key artists in film, video, and digital media, the anthology of Experimental Film and Video revisits the divergent philosophical and critical discourses of the 1970s and repositions these debates relative to contemporary practice. Forty artists have contributed images, and 25 artists reflect on the diverse critical agendas, contexts, and communities that have affected their practice across the period from the late 1960s to date. Along with an introduction by Jackie Hatfield and forewords by Sean Cubitt and Al Rees, this illustrated anthology includes interviews and recent essays by filmmakers, video artists, and pioneers of interactive cinema. Experimental Film and Video opens up the conceptual avenues for future practice and related critical writing.

	Video: The Reflexive Medium Author: Yvonne Spielmann Editorial: Leonardo Books Description:	Buy here
	Video is an electronic medium, dependent on the transfer of electronic signals. Video signals are in constant movement, circulating between camera and monitor. This process of simultaneous production and reproduction makes video the most reflexive of media, distinct from both photography and film (in which the image or a sequence of images is central). Because it is processual and not bound to recording and the appearance of a "frame," video shares properties with the computer. In this book, Yvonne Spielmann argues that video is not merely an intermediate stage between analog and digital but a medium in its own right.

	An Art of Limina: Gary Hill's Works and Writings Author: George Quasha and Charles Stein Editorial: Poligrafa Books Description:	Buy here
	Of his earliest artistic experiments, Gary Hill has said, "More than traditional sculpture I was involved in material process… 'How far can I take this material?'" When he found video, he was mesmerized: "I started to play with cameras, tape recorders, sound… I was completely seduced by technological possibilities, they changed my head inside out in a way." Hill has been making video art since before the world agreed that it was art at all, working with moving image, sound and mixed media since the early 1970s. His curiosity and tenacity, along with the exceptional quality of his work, have led to honors including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and a MacArthur "genius" grant. His work has been exhibited throughout the world, at Documenta IX, in a string of Whitney Biennials, and in solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou, among others. This, the most complete monograph currently available, created with the personal collaboration of the artist, was originally conceived as an alphabet-book of his concepts. It now reproduces more than 100 works, some with their spoken text, personal writings and an update on "Loop Through," the 2005 work performed by Isabelle Huppert.

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Illuminating Video: An essential guide to video art

Video Art

A history of experimental film and video

Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader

Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film

Digital Art (World of Art)

New Media in Art (2nd Edition)

The New Media Reader

Video Art (Basic Art)

Video Art: A Guided Tour

Feedback: The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artists Interviews

New Media in Art (Basic Art)

Art of the Digital Age

At the Edge of Art

Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art

Fast Forward: Media Art: Sammlung Goetz

Black Women Film and Video Artists

By the Skin of their Tongues

Artists' Video: An International Guide

A History of Video Art: The Development of Form and Function

Art of Digital Video

Video Art: The Castello di Rivoli Collection

Video Culture: A Critical Investigation

Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China

New Artists Video: A Critical Anthology

Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Production

Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video

Lux: A Decade of Artists Film and Video

Video Art: An Anthology

Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture

The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970-1985

The Art of Bill Viola

The Worlds of Nam June Paik

Gary Hill

Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Film-Making

Vito Acconci: Building an Island

Doug Aitken

Artist Body: Performances 1969-1998

Aernout Mik: Dispersion Room Reversal Room

The Cinematic Works of Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Slipcase

John Baldessari: Life's Balance, Works 84-04

Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle

Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings

The Essential Joseph Beuys

Rough Edits: Popular Image Video Works 1977-1980

Candice Breitz: Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea

Sophie Calle: Did you see me?

Peter Campus: Selected Works 1973-1987

David Claerbout

Stan Douglas

The Art of Tracey Emin

VALIE EXPORT: Fragments of Imagination

Yang Fudong

Jean-Luc Godard

Dominique Foerster-Gonzalez

Double-Cross: The Hollywood films of Douglas Gordon

Being Naked - Playing Dead: The Art of Peter Greenaway

Rebecca Horn: Body Landscapes

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century

Art as Experience

Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Toward an Aesthetic of Reception

Languages of Art

Jeffrey Shaw--A User's Manual From Expanded Cinema to Virtual Reality

Video and Aesthetic of Narcissism

The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths

Pierre Huyghe: Float

Joan Jonas: Performances Film Installations 1968-2000

The Film Art of Isaac Julien

Les Levine: Art Can See

Chris Marker

Paul McCarthy

Bjorn Melhus: Auto Center Drive

Shirin Neshat

Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey

The Atlas Group & Walid Raad

Pipilotti Rist

Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals