Critical Writing Index

Keith Sonier:: Video and Film as Colour- Field

by Robert Pincus Witten

Artforum, May 1972, v. 10, no. 9, pp. 35-37

In this article Pincus-Witten reviews T.V Channel Mix an installation by artist Keith Sonnier. The installation combines various video projections that create a series of abstract images. In the article Witten relates this work to the colourfield paintings and abstract sculptures of the 60's. Witten writes, that video goes beyond limits of both painting and sculpture. In the second half of the article, Witten compares Sonniers work with the artist Rosenquest and demonstrates videos intensity and emotional impact on the viewer.

ITEM 1972.003 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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