| Description |
118 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm |
| Series |
One work |
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One work.
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| Summary |
Opening with a prolonged salvo of fiery explosions accompanied by the warning cry of a siren, Dara Birnbaum's video Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978-79) is a concise, action-packed, and visually riveting video. During its seven-minute span we see, again and again, the transformation of the drab secretary Diana Prince into the super-heroic Wonder Woman. By isolating and repeating the moment of transformation-spinning figure, arms outstretched-Birnbaum unmasks the technology at the heart of the metamorphosis. In this illustrated examination of Birnbaum's video, T. J. Demos situates it in its historical context-among other developments in postmodernist appropriation, media analysis, and feminist politics-and explores the artist's pioneering attempts to open up the transformative abilities of video as a medium. Demos examines Birnbaum's influence on such artists as Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Candice Breitz, and the turn toward "postproduction procedures"-the mobilization of existing imagery for innovative uses. He also reveals a fascinating historical shift in the reception of Birnbaum's work: a move from an emphasis on her deconstruction of mass culture ideology to an appreciation of her creative use of consumer imagery |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Birnbaum, Dara -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Birnbaum, Dara. Technology/transfer: Wonder Woman.
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| SUBJECT |
Wonder Woman (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003009201
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| Genre/Form |
Video art.
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| LC no. |
2010674657 |
| ISBN |
1846380669 (hbk.) |
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1846380677 (paperback) |
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9781846380662 (hbk.) |
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