Victor Burgin : Incomplete Components of a Practice

by BURGIN, VICTOR

• ISBN13: 9788861305427
• ISBN10: 8861305423
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-16
• Publisher: Skira

Summary

Over the past thirty years, Victor Burgin has become both an influential artist and a renowned theorist of the still and moving image. His writings are noted for their lucidity, while his photographs and videos are paradoxical and question meaning in contemporary society. In this book, Victor Burgin retraces the history of his artistic and critical pursuits, from his conceptual photographic works of the sixties to his recent video work. He reviews the evolution of his visual work with a particular focus on its relationship to the institution and practices of painting, photography and cinema. This book is different from Burgin's previous publications, which are either monographs of his visual workwith essays by other writersor collections of his essays. This is the first book in which Burgin turns his attention to his own artistic production.

Author Biography

Victor Burgin came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the originators of conceptual art. His works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Modern, London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 10
Beginnings	p. 14
Evolution	p. 42
Ideology	p. 80
Specificity	p. 90
Ten video works	p. 98
Nietzsche's Paris	p. 99
Watergate	p. 111
Elective Affinities	p. 121
Listen to Britain	p. 131
Assemblee Dans Un Parc	p. 147
The Little House	p. 157
Voyage to Italy	p. 177
Fogliazzi	p. 199
The Fifth Promenade	p. 217
Alle Otto, Solito Posto	p. 239
Questions	p. 246
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