Vera Dika is Associate Professor at New Jersey City University.

"In her path-breaking book, Vera Dika provides us with a comprehensive view of the Hallwalls generation, tracing their influences, origins, and theories, as well as engaging their accomplishments, with an astute critical and contextually sensitive eye, while also enriching her exposition with her own eyewitness testimony as someone who personally observed the exciting evolution of the Pictures Generation."--Noel Carroll, CUNY Graduate Center"A tour de force. In The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls, Vera Dika has given us a richly textured, revisionist portrait of the final key art movement of the twentieth century, returning to Hallwalls and Buffalo as the center, not the margin, of the movement. Deeply researched, elegantly written, Dika's work will be an invaluable resource for artists, cultural historians, critics and students."--J.E. Smyth, University of Warwick

• 1. Introduction 2. Critical and Theoretical Perspectives 3. Hallwalls: How a Gallery was Founded 4. Video and the Body 5. The Meeting of Sensibilities That Became an Explosion 6. The Camera and Authorship 7. Body Traces and Memory Places: Michael Zwack and Nancy Dwyer 8. Communities of Influence 9. Conclusion and a Continuation: New York/New Work

Vera Dika is Associate Professor at New Jersey City University.

"In her path-breaking book, Vera Dika provides us with a comprehensive view of the Hallwalls generation, tracing their influences, origins, and theories, as well as engaging their accomplishments, with an astute critical and contextually sensitive eye, while also enriching her exposition with her own eyewitness testimony as someone who personally observed the exciting evolution of the Pictures Generation."--Noel Carroll, CUNY Graduate Center"A tour de force. In The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls, Vera Dika has given us a richly textured, revisionist portrait of the final key art movement of the twentieth century, returning to Hallwalls and Buffalo as the center, not the margin, of the movement. Deeply researched, elegantly written, Dika's work will be an invaluable resource for artists, cultural historians, critics and students."--J.E. Smyth, University of Warwick

• 1. Introduction 2. Critical and Theoretical Perspectives 3. Hallwalls: How a Gallery was Founded 4. Video and the Body 5. The Meeting of Sensibilities That Became an Explosion 6. The Camera and Authorship 7. Body Traces and Memory Places: Michael Zwack and Nancy Dwyer 8. Communities of Influence 9. Conclusion and a Continuation: New York/New Work

Vera Dika is Associate Professor at New Jersey City University.

"In her path-breaking book, Vera Dika provides us with a comprehensive view of the Hallwalls generation, tracing their influences, origins, and theories, as well as engaging their accomplishments, with an astute critical and contextually sensitive eye, while also enriching her exposition with her own eyewitness testimony as someone who personally observed the exciting evolution of the Pictures Generation."--Noel Carroll, CUNY Graduate Center"A tour de force. In The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls, Vera Dika has given us a richly textured, revisionist portrait of the final key art movement of the twentieth century, returning to Hallwalls and Buffalo as the center, not the margin, of the movement. Deeply researched, elegantly written, Dika's work will be an invaluable resource for artists, cultural historians, critics and students."--J.E. Smyth, University of Warwick

• 1. Introduction 2. Critical and Theoretical Perspectives 3. Hallwalls: How a Gallery was Founded 4. Video and the Body 5. The Meeting of Sensibilities That Became an Explosion 6. The Camera and Authorship 7. Body Traces and Memory Places: Michael Zwack and Nancy Dwyer 8. Communities of Influence 9. Conclusion and a Continuation: New York/New Work