Art + Performance – serie

Internationally recognized for her visually elegant, thought-provoking video art, Mary Lucier was a sculptor, photographer and performance artist before she turned to video in 1973. This volume brings together a selection of Lucier's previously unpublished writings and drawings along with essays, reviews, interviews and photographs of her ephemeral installations and performances to create an absorbing portrait of one of America's most accomplished video pioneers.

This wide-ranging anthology includes a collection of reviews tracing Foreman's reception from the 1960s to today, a series of informative interviews, a section of critical essays and a selection of Foreman's writings (including the complete text of My Head Was a Sledgehammer). The book also offers a detailed chronology of Foreman's career, a current bibliography and 19 photographs from his plays.

A major work of scholarship on the internationally celebrated video artist Gary Hill, this volume includes many of the important critical essays on his work over more than two decades, along with interviews with Hill, his own writings on video, and two dozen illustrations.