New Imagery: At the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Video Guide, 1982, v. 4, no. 20, p. 7
Review of the Exhibition, New Imagery, which reflect the contemporary artworld's concern for reexamining representational and narrative conventions.
Lori Zippay notes that "many artists have employed a literary approach to video-storytelling, where characters' thoughts and ideas are juxtaposed with 'real' events and the narrative is furthered less through visual information than through spoken word or mannered dialogue." It is within this literary construct that several artists have reworked television narrative, experimenting with structure and content. Zippay comments on many of the videos showing in the exhibit.
ITEM 1982.080 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
How to Fly – Ed Bowes
Windfalls or New Thoughts on Thinking – Matthew Geller
American Male – John Arvanites
Impotent Metaphor – Bruce Yonmoto
Impotent Metaphor – Norman Yonomoto
Crime Time Comix Presents Steel and Flesh – Eric Metcalfe
Prime Cuts – Paul Wong
The Magentic Tapes: Dictatorship, Voyeurism, Retaliation – Jill Scott
Grand Mal – Tony Oursler
Connecticut Papoose: A Morphology for the Middle Man – Ernest Gusella
Up Down Strange – Susan Britton
The Sound of Sand – Jeff Turtletaub