After uniqueness : a history of film and video art in circulation /

Balsom, Erika,

After uniqueness : a history of film and video art in circulation / Erika Balsom. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2019. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Images have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital reproduction has created new possibilities for the duplication and consumption of images, offering greater dissemination and access. But digital reproduction has also stoked new anxieties concerning authenticity and ownership. From this contemporary vantage point, 'After Uniqueness' traces the ambivalence of reproducibility through the intersecting histories of experimental cinema and the moving image in art, examining how artists, filmmakers, and theorists have found in the copy a utopian promise or a dangerous inauthenticity - or both at once.

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Motion picture audiences--History.
Video art--History.
Motion pictures and the arts.
Art and motion pictures.
Motion picture industry--Technological innovations.

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