At once poetic and provocative, Victor Burgin's "Some Cities" deftly juxtaposes photographs and texts in a manner that invites comparisons to the urban essays of filmmaker Chris Marker and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. Best known for his artistic exploration of the divergent realities of images and words, Burgin is a gifted practitioner of ...
In Venise Victor Burgin pursues ideas of "desire in and for a city, and in a sense, desire of a city, " ideas first explore in his video Venise, which was made for the city of Marseilles and reflects on the relationship between San Fransisco and Marseillies.
Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, ...
Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the 'inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the 'outside' of films speak mainly of such aspects of production and reception as the organization of the film industry and the sociology of audiences: the ...
Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context, Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions that produce them, such as cinema, photography, ...
'Art theory', understood as those forms of aesthetics, art history and criticism which began in the Enlightenment and culminated in 'high modernism', is now at an end. These essays, examining the interdependencies of advertising, film, painting and photography, constitute a call for a 'new art theory' - a practice of writing whose end is to ...
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Society for Education in Film and Television
Date Published: 1980
Description: Fair/No Jacket. Used Articles: "Manet's 'Olympia' in 1865", "Photography", "Pornography", "Hollywood". Text is clean, clear and bright throughout. Cover shows minor marking, edgewear and discolouring. read more
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Various, [ Chris Scoates, Joseph D. Ketner, Dennis Adams, Terry Allen, Carl Andre, Victor Burgin, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke,...
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Binding: board covers
Publisher: John Weber Gallery / Washington University Gallery of Art
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very Fine. Spiral bound; black-and-white & color; edition size 1000; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue for show held February 1, 1991. Texts by Chris Scoates, Joseph D. Ketner, and each artist: Dennis Adams, Terry Allen, Carl Andre, Victor Burgin, Leon Golub, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Jasper Johns, Ronald Jones, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Adrian Piper, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Krzysztof Wodiczko. Profusely ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
Date Published: 1996
Description: Very Good. A softcover, 333 pages. In very good shape, pages and text are clean and unmarked. I used this book through a semester but it doesn't look it! I did the reading, though. A square and tight binding. read more
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James Donald, Editor; Victor Burgin; Linda Williams; John Tagg; Geoff Bennington; Emilia Steuerman; Paul Crowler; Mark Cousin...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Date Published: 1989
Description: Good. Good unmarked hc via Library rebound w stamp and 2-inch cutout to toc. Post Structural debate continues...topics include Psychoanalysis, Lyotard, Habermas, avant garde, sublime...Essays by Victor Burgin; Linda Williams; John Tagg; Geoff Bennington; Emilia Steuerman; Paul Crowler; Mark Cousin; Ian Chambers; Adrian Forty; Lisa Tracker. read more
Description: London: Methuen & Co., Ltd. 1986. First edition. Small octavo. Fine. A gorgeous copy of this excellent book. Uncommon in this beautiful condition. read more
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Armleder, John M.; Art & Language; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Victor Burgin; Marie Jose Burki; Collection Yoon Ja & Paul Devautour...
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Binding: Binder / Cartable
Publisher: MAMCO-musée d`art moderne et contemporain, Genève
Description: Simon Linke; Olivier Mosset; Cady Noland; Roman Opalka; Nam June Paik; Mimmo Rotella; Claude Rutault; George Segal; Daniel... Near Fine/Excellente Condition. 8vo / in-8o. Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair. read more
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