| Description |
[224 pages] : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction Call me old-fashioned but ... : meaning, singularity and transcendence in the work of Bill Viola / Chris Townsend -- Piercing to our inaccessible, inmost parts: the sublime in the work of Bill Viola / Cynthia Freeland -- Space, time, video, viola / Otto Neumaier -- On the anticipation of responsibility / Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield -- Spirit and medium: the video art of Bill Viola / David Morgan -- Telling times: revisiting The greeting / Jean Wainwright -- In my secret life: self, space and world in Room for St. John of the Cross, 1983 / Chris Townsend -- The frequency of existence: Bill Viola's archetypal sound / Rhys Davies -- Something rich and strange: Bill Viola's uses of Asian spirituality / Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis -- Screening angels: the messenger, Durham Cathedral, 1996 / David Jasper -- Knocking at a foreigner's house: when the Russian art community bet Bill Viola / Antonio Geusa |
| Summary |
"The American video and installation artist Bill Viola is one of the most popular artists in the world today. Significatnly, at a time when an artist's importance is oftern conferred by small groups of experts and cognoscenti, Viola's rich imagery touches a nerve with large international audiences. His is an art of everyman; work that is profoundly spiritual and never afraid to make the big statement. That statement is often about human life and its relation to the universe, to the soul and human spirit, to nature and to death. Viola is one of those rare artist whose work makes us awae of our nature as human beings. He returns art to what were once it fundamental concerns: he gives it a relevance to the emotional and spiritual lives of ordinary people. But Viola's art is also an art of our own time: despite this interest in 'old-fashioned' values, this work is produced with the most innovative, most modern of media." - back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Viola, Bill, 1951-
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Viola, Bill, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Installations (Art)
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| Genre/Form |
Video art.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Video art.
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| Author |
Townsend, Chris.
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| LC no. |
2003111309 |
| ISBN |
0500284725 |
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