Paperback, colour and black and white illustrations, 248 pages, W150mm x H210mm
Modern art, reflecting and defining new intellectual, scientific and
technological developments, has radically extended the conventional
media of sculpture and painting. Following innovative ideas about
representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and
Surrealism â particularly in the work of Duchamp â artists abandoned
strict adherence to traditional hierarchies of media and embraced any
means, including technological, which best served their purposes.
In the
last 50 years especially, ideas about time and duration have reinstated
narrative in art, via film-making and video, the theatricality of
Happenings, Performance and Installation art, digitally manipulated
photography and Virtual Reality.
This pioneering book, originally
published under the title New Media in Late 20th-Century Art, discusses
the most influential artists internationally â from Eadweard Muybridge
to Robert Rauschenberg, Bill Viola and Pipilotti Rist â and those
seminal works which have radically transformed the map of world art.