New Media In Art

Modern artists have radically extended the conventional media of sculpture and painting.

Following innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism – particularly in the work of Duchamp – artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional media and embraced any means, including technology, which best served their purposes. Ideas about time and duration have reinstated narrative in art, via film-making and video, the theatricality of happenings, performance and installation art, digitally manipulated photography and virtual reality.

This pioneering book, now expanded and revised, discusses the most influential artists internationally – from Muybridge to Rauschenberg, Bill Viola and Pipilotti Rist – and those seminal works which have transformed the map of world art.

Michael Rush is the author of Video Art (Thames & Hudson, 2003), the first comprehensive survey of this medium in twenty years. A widely-published writer and essayist, he has been a frequent contributor to several publications, including the New York Times, Art in America and Bookforum.

The first edition of this book was published under the title 'New Media in Late 20th-Century Art'.