Critical Writing Index

New Imagery: At the Museum of Modern Art, New York

by Lori Zippay

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