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Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art

Editors
Doug Hall; Sally Jo Fifer
Publisher
Aperature in association with the Bay Area Video Coalition
Place
New York, NY
ETC archive
ETC0409

Abstract

Foreward by David Ross; articles by Deirdre Boyle, John Handhardt, Marita Sturken, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Coco Fusco, Martha Gever, Martha Rosler. Sections on History, Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture, Audience/Reception, Syntax and GGenre, Telling Stories. Extensive bibliography.

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Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art. Aperature in association with the Bay Area Video Coalition. 1990.

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Foreward by David Ross; articles by Deirdre Boyle, John Handhardt, Marita Sturken, Ann-Sargent Wooster, Coco Fusco, Martha Gever, Martha Rosler. Sections on History, Furniture/Sculpture/Architecture, Audience/Reception, Syntax and GGenre, Telling Stories. Extensive bibliography.

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