Critical Writing Index

The Passion for Perceiving: Expanded Forms of Film and Video Art

by John Hanhardt

Art Journal, Fall 1985, v. 45, no. 3, pp. 213-216

Hanhardt contributes to the issues of interpretation theory in discussing the expanded forms of film and video art through the works of artists Morgan Fisher, Benni Efrat, Peter Campus, and Buky Schwartz. The highlighted installation works share a conscious implication of the spectators through a strategic manipulation of points of view.

ITEM 1985.092 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Ohio at Giverny (1983)Mary Lucier

Time Zones (1980)Ira Schneider

The Head of the Dragon (1981)Francesc Torres

Episodic Generation (1979)Paul Sharits

Steam Screens (1979)Stan VanDerBeek & Joan Brigham

The Judas Window (1982)Leandro Katz

North Light (1979)Morgan Fisher

Putney Bridge (1976)Benni Efrat

Mem (1975)Peter Campus

Yellow Triangle (1979)Buky Schwartz