Art and Electronic Media - Special Preview

Art and Electronic Media is the freshest title in the Themes and Movements series published by Phaidon Press. This highly anticipated book enables the rich genealogy of art and electronic media in the twentieth century to be understood and seen - literally and figuratively - as central to the histories of art and visual culture. This Special Preview lets you see more of what's inside the book.

Like other volumes in the Themes and Movements series, the book is divided into three main sections: Survey, Works, and Documents. The richly illustrated Survey provides an overview of the field beginning in the early 20th century and focusing on the period from the 1950s to the present. The Works section includes nearly 200 additional color plates with extensive, descriptive captions. The Documents section consists of theoretical writings, primarily by artists, that played an important role in defining various electronic art practices.

In order to foreground continuities across periods, genres and media, author Edward Shanken has organized the book around 7 thematic streams that run through the Survey, Documents, and Works sections:

- Motion, Duration, Illumination
- Coded Form and Electronic Production
- Charged Environments
- Networks, Surveillance, Culture Jamming
- Bodies, Surrogates, Emergent Systems
- Simulations and Simulacra
- Exhibitions, Institutions, Communities, Collaborations

The volume also includes a section of biographies of the artists and authors whose work is included in the Works and Documents sections, a bibliography, and a comprehensive index.

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