Table of Contents

Foreword/Artists' video is blessed and cursed by its technology Brian Winston Introduction: Sean Cubitt and Stephen Partridge Chapter 1. Video: Resisting Definition, Jackie Hatfield Chapter 2. Video as an Art: Looking into the Rewind Archive through the Philosophical Aesthetics of Richard Wollheim, Grahame Weinbren Chapter 3. Video between Television and Art: Interventions into ProgrammeFlow and Standard Formats by British Video Artists, Yvonne Spielmann Chapter 4. Artists' Television: Interruptions-Interventions, Stephen Partridge Chapter 5. Decay Behind a Glass Monitor: The Prophetic Deterioration of Early Video Installation, Emile Shemilt Chapter 6. Liveness, Performance and the Permanent Frame, Mike Leggett Chapter 7. Vide Verso: Video's Critical Corpus, Malcolm Dickson Chapter 8. On the Reinvention of Video in the 1980s, Sean Cubitt Chapter 9. A Brief History of Video - Time and Base, Adam Lockhart End Note About the Contributors Bibliography Index

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The origin and development of British video art

About the Author

Sean Cubitt is Director of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Stephen Partridge is Professor of Media Art at the University of Dundee.

Reviews

"This is an important title on its subject, presenting new information and critical analysis, and would be of interest to most libraries with collections in the fields of art history (contemporary art, British art), film and media history, and conservation studies." -Art Libraries Society of North America "The informal collections excavated and archived by REWIND present a much needed history of British practices... in addition to the value produced around the standalone artwork and independent artist." -Screen