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Parallel Texts
Victor Burgin
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Description for Parallel Texts
Paperback.
The visual and written works by acclaimed artist and critic Victor Burgin span four decades. Parallel Texts presents a compilation of essays, interviews and extracts relating to his own production of artworks in galleries and museums, and theoretical essays in books and journals, over the past 40 years. Unusually, Burgin considers his artistic and critical writing to be interconnected. Burgin's ideas are ordered chronologically in the book: in 1969-72 he is first heard explaining the newly emerged 'conceptual art' to interlocutors accustomed to traditional painting and sculpture. In 1976-78 he explores theoretical foundations for a post-conceptualist socialist art practice in ... Read more
The visual and written works by acclaimed artist and critic Victor Burgin span four decades. Parallel Texts presents a compilation of essays, interviews and extracts relating to his own production of artworks in galleries and museums, and theoretical essays in books and journals, over the past 40 years. Unusually, Burgin considers his artistic and critical writing to be interconnected. Burgin's ideas are ordered chronologically in the book: in 1969-72 he is first heard explaining the newly emerged 'conceptual art' to interlocutors accustomed to traditional painting and sculpture. In 1976-78 he explores theoretical foundations for a post-conceptualist socialist art practice in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861898135
SKU
V9781861898135
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Ref
99-15
About Victor Burgin
Victor Burgin's theoretical works include In/Different Spaces (1996), The End of Art Theory (1986), Thinking Photography (1982) and The Remembered Film (Reaktion, 2004). Monographs of his visual work include Some Cities (Reaktion, 1996) and Relocating (2002). His photographic and video works are represented in major museum collections worldwide.
Reviews for Parallel Texts
'Collected here are essays and interviews from a wide variety of sources, all following a number of key issues, but never straying far from [Burgin's] central theme of the complicated relationship between art, politics and theory.' - ARLIS