Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media - Softcover

Lovejoy, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131587595 ISBN 13: 9780131587595

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1996

Synopsis

Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media explores in detail the growing impact of video and computer technologies, and of the Internet, on aesthetic experience and examines the emerging role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of such artists as Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson, among others, with electronic media and discusses the important economic, social, and aesthetic issues these new technologies imply.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Written by a well-known multimedia artist, this cross-disciplinary survey examines the impact of today's high-level computer and video technologies upon contemporary art. It draws connections between the production, dissemination, value and creation of art--past and present--serving as a frame-of-reference for the future. The Second Edition reflects the major issues and developments that have taken place in the visual field during the last ten years.

About the Author:

Margot Lovejoy is Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York at Purchase.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0131587595
• ISBN 13: 9780131587595
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319