Vertigo: A Century of Multimedia Art from Futurism to the Web - Softcover

Germano Celant; Gianfranco Maraniello

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8861305628 ISBN 13: 9788861305625

Publisher: Skira Editore, 2008

Synopsis

This title presents the relation between art and media from the earliest incursions of technology to large multimedia installations. The Twentieth century marked the end of arts specificity. Sculpture and painting began to admit contamination from other languages architecture, photography, cinema, designing a free-ranging exploration of the most varied techniques and media. Art was swept up in a new sense of euphoria that opened the artists work to a vertiginous onrush of new expressive opportunities."Vertigo" seeks to document the trans-media excursions and incursions driven by the advent of new technologies - radio, television, telephones, gramophones, cinema, and theatre. It presents a grand panorama of images and thoughts, books and manifestos, films and photographs, disks and videos produced by the great names in art both past and contemporary, from Balla, Martinetti, Schwitters, Duchamp, Warhol and Beuys to Bruce Nauman, Anselm Kiefer, Nam June Paik and Laurie Anderson. It offers us an aesthetic realm unlimited by space, time or the medium.

About this title

About the Author:

Germano Celant is author of more than one hundred publications and the curator of hundreds of international exhibitions. Gianfranco Maraniello is Director of the MAMbo Museum of Modern Art of Bologna.

About this edition

• Publisher: Skira Editore
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 8861305628
• ISBN 13: 9788861305625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500