Bill Viola Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings, 1973-1994

Name: Bill Viola Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House : Writings, 1973-1994
Brand: MIT Press Ltd
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By Viola, Bill (1951-2024)

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Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, drawings, and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each work illustrated is accompanied by a description by the artist, as well as comments on the work's origins from the artist's notebooks. For the last 25 years, Viola has used innovative multimedia technologies to explore the phenomena of sense perception as a language of the body and avenue to self-knowledge, integrating many disciplines and philosophies to reveal contemporary art's relevance to the modern world. His views have deep roots in mysticism, poetry, philosophy, Eastern art, shamanism, Chinese Taoism, Sufism, and Zen Buddhism. Viola's chief concerns today are to draw attention to the upset ecological balance of nature by focusing on the connection between our inner and outer lives, on the conception of the self as part of the whole. Published in association with the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.

Product details

Binding:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

304

Release Date:

1995-12-12

Publication Date:

1995-12-12

Publisher:

MIT Press Ltd

Languages:

Original: English

ISBN10:

0262720256

ISBN13:

9780262720250

GPSR Manufacturer Reference:

[email protected]

Weight:

601 g

Height:

166 cm

Width:

235 cm

Thickness:

27 cm

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