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OverviewChosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, drawings, and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each work illustrated is accompanied by a description by the artist, as well as comments on the work's origins from the artist's notebooks.For the last 25 years, Viola has used innovative multimedia technologies to explore the phenomena of sense perception as a language of the body and avenue to self-knowledge, integrating many disciplines and philosophies to reveal contemporary art's relevance to the modern world. His views have deep roots in mysticism, poetry, philosophy, Eastern art, shamanism, Chinese Taoism, Sufism, and Zen Buddhism. Viola's chief concerns today are to draw attention to the upset ecological balance of nature by focusing on the connection between our inner and outer lives, on the conception of the self as part of the whole. Published in association with the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bill Viola (Bill Viola Studio) , Robert Violette (Publishing Director, Anthony d'Offay Gallery)Publisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9780262720250ISBN 10: 0262720256 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 12 December 1995 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe larger struggle we are witnessing today ... [is] an ecological drama where the outcome rests not only on our realization that the natural physical environment is one and the same as our bodies, but that nature itself is a form of Mind. --Bill Viola Author InformationRobert Violette is a publisher and editor based in London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |