Research Catalog

Title

Bill Viola / John G. Hanhardt ; edited by Kira Perov.

Author

Hanhardt, John G.

Publication

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Perov, Kira
• Viola, Bill, 1951-

Description

293 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Bill Viola began producing video works in the early 1970s and since then has captivated audiences with his poignant and beautifully wrought interpretations of human experience. Viola has explored the possibilities of electronic, visual, and sound practices throughout his career and is today one of the most celebrated proponents of video art. This is the first monograph to chart Viola’s career in full, covering his education in New York, his earliest major films, his retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1997, and his recent installations in Venice, New York, Tokyo, London, and Berlin. Renowned curator and specialist in video art John Hanhardt outlines the key visual, literary, and spiritual influences in Viola’s work and his changing approach to the medium of film as its technology advances. Woven into the discussion are illustrations of Viola’s most significant works, including Information (1973), The Passing (1991), The Greeting (1995), Going Forth by Day (2002), and Martyrs, the 2014 film commissioned for St Paul’s Cathedral in London, as well as reproductions of Viola’s sketches and notebooks that bring his working process to life.--Publisher website.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Viola, Bill, 1951- > Criticism and interpretation > Catalogs
• Viola, Bill, 1951-
• Video art > Catalogs
• Installations (Art) > Catalogs
• Installations (Art)
• Video art

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Thought, reflection, belief -- The discovery of video -- 1970s: Reflection on nature and time -- 1980s: Expanded visions of life and memory -- 1990s: The joining of the spiritual to the aesthetic -- 1990s: Embodying emotion on video -- 2000s: A humanism for our times -- The martyrs.

Call Number

JQF 16-135

ISBN

• 9780500093924
• 050009392X

LCCN

2015932479

OCLC

907140211

Author

Hanhardt, John G., author.

Title

Bill Viola / John G. Hanhardt ; edited by Kira Perov.

Publisher

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Perov, Kira, editor.

Viola, Bill, 1951- artist.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-135