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Video art : a guided tour

Video art dominates the international art world to such an extent that its heady days on the radical fringes are sometimes overlooked - often unknown. This text is a guide to video art and its history, tracing the story from the weighty Portapak equipment of the '60s and '70s to today's digital technology
Print Book, English, 2005
I.B. Tauris ; in association with University of the Arts ; In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, London, 2005
video art
x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9781850435464, 1850435464
56640423
Introduction: from the margins to the mainstream
The modernist inheritance: tampering with the technology, and other interferences
Disrupting the content: feminism
Masculinities: class, gay and racial equality
Language: its deconstruction and the UK scene
Television spoofs and scratch: parody and other form of sincere flattery
Video art on television
Video sculpture
The 1990s and the new millennium