Moving Pictures Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum

Name: Moving Pictures Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum
Brand: Guggenheim museum publications
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During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 300
Release Date:: 2005-09-14
Publication Date:: 2005-09-14
Publisher:: Guggenheim museum publications
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0892072695
Weight:: 1400 g

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