Rewind Italia: Early Video Art in Italy - Hardcover

Leuzzi, Laura; Partridge, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861967216 ISBN 13: 9780861967216

Publisher: John Libbey Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Italy was a vibrant center of video art production and experimentation throughout the 1970s and 1980s, attracting artists from all over the world and laying the foundation for video art as a concept in the global art and film communities. With vibrant illustrations, compelling interviews, and essays by leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights Italy’s key place in the history of video as an art form.

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Review:

This book is a significant contribution, based on a long and profound research journey, and an impressive network of actors. The cataloguing of their memories and observations, allow the reader tocompletely re-think not only Italian video art from the period in consideration, but broader trends in European and American video. We must be very grateful for the fine antennae of Partridge, Leuzzi and colleagues who have put together such a compelling and engaging portrait of Italian video art practice. Source: Media-N

From the Author:

Laura Leuzzi is an art historian and curator whose research focuses on the relationship between words and image in visual art and new media. She was a research fellow on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, REWINDitalia, based out of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

Stephen Partridge is an artist, academic researcher, and pioneer of Early British video art. He is Professor of Media Art at the University of Dundee and co-editor (with Sean Cubitt) of Rewind: British Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Libbey Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0861967216
• ISBN 13: 9780861967216
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352