1st Edition
Video Art Historicized Traditions and Negotiations
By Malin Hedlin Hayden
Copyright 2015
240 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Video art emerged as an art form that from the 1960s and onwards challenged the concept of art - hence, art historical practices. From the perspective of artists, critics, and scholars engaged with this new medium, art was seen as too limiting a notion. Important issues were to re-think art as a means for critical investigations and a demand for visual reconsiderations. Likewise, art history was... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Hesitantly Art; Chapter 2 Art History or Not; Chapter 3 Canon; Chapter 4 Compulsive Categorizations; Chapter 5 And Also;
Biography
Malin Hedlin Hayden is Associate Professor in Art History, the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University.
"In Video Art Historicized:Traditions and Negotiations, Malin Hedin Hayden, a professor at Stockholm University, pinpoints another pitfall, involving a gap between a praxis that has always sought to usher in the notion of art and a historiography which has not managed to get away from the usual concepts in order to grasp it, reincluding video art within the framework of a traditional history of art." -- Geraldine Sfez, Critique d'art
