Research Catalog

Title

Components of a practice / Victor Burgin.

Author

Burgin, Victor

Publication

Milano : Skira ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Maggia, Filippo.
• Opera Bevilacqua La Masa (Venice, Italy)
• Museo di fotografia contemporanea (Cinisello Balsamo, Italy)

Description

263 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Highly influential both as an artist and as a theorist of the image, Victor Burgin first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the originators of Conceptual Art. Initially working mainly in photography he turned to digital video when the technology became available in the early 1990s. In this book, the first in which he turns his critical attention upon his own artistic production, Burgin gives an account of the beginnings, evolution, ideology and specificity of a practice that over the past forty years has produced a body of work of exceptional aesthetic and intellectual integrity."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Victor Burgin, components of a practice

Subject

• Burgin, Victor
• Burgin, Victor > Exhibitions
• Video art
• Photography, Artistic
• Installations (Art)
• Conceptual art
• Video art > Great Britain > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-263).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Beginnings -- Evolution -- Ideology -- Specificity -- Ten video works -- Nietzsche's Paris -- Watergate -- Elective affinities -- Listen to Britain -- Assemblee dans un parc -- The little house -- Voyage to Italy -- Fogliazzi -- The fifth promenade -- Alle otto. Solito posto.

ISBN

• 9788861305427
• 8861305423

OCLC

• 276224119
• SCSB-10044881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library