Darcy Lange, videography as social practice / Mercedes Vicente.
"The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that...
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| Hōputu: | iPukapuka |
| Reo: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland,
[2024]
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| Rangatū: | Experimental film and artists' moving image
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| Urunga tuihono: | Springer eBooks |
| Whakarāpopototanga: | "The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers. This book follows Lange's trajectory from his early observational studies to the crisis of representation and socially engaged video and activism, as it is shaped by, and resists, the artistic, cultural and political preoccupations of the 1970s and 1980s. It strikes a balance between being a monographic account providing a close analysis of Lange's oeuvre and drawing from unpublished archival materialsa sort of catalogue raisonnwhilst maintaining a breadth with theoretical discourses around the themes of labour and class, education, and indigenous struggles central to his work. The book's frameworks of Conceptual Art, structuralist and ethnographic film theory, social documentary and the critique of representation, video as social practice and the notion of 'feedback', participatory socially engaged art and postcolonial and indigenous theory,expand our understanding of video outside the predominant structuralist tendencies. Lange's transnational and nomadic career introduces notions of alterity and challenges nationalistic accounts that excluded him in the past." -- |
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| Whakaahuatanga ōkiko: | 1 online resource (xviii, 287 pages) : illustrations. |
| Rārangi puna kōrero: | Includes blibliographical references and index. |