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Art of the 1980s: As If the Digital Mattered

Art of the 1980s: As If the Digital Mattered

Frank, Patrick

Hardcover

Art HistoryAmerican Art - GeneralIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 3111384632
ISBN13: 9783111384634
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Jul 17 2024
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Who are the important artists of the 1980s? This book urges a new look at that question in light of the digital direction of our culture since then. Specifically, five artists used advanced technology during that decade in ways that foreshadow many of today's concerns. Joseph Nechvatal created expressive digital images, and then infected them with computer viruses. Lynn Hershman Leeson created the first interactive work for videodisk, creating a bridge between art and gaming. Nancy Burson foresaw multicultural America when she digitally blended photographs of diverse persons. George Legrady was among the first artists to digitally manipulate news images and offer the results as art. Gretchen Bender's use of digital imagery in her work has never been adequately discussed. If the digital matters, then these artists should also matter.

Joseph Nechvatal is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago an the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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