An illustrated study of performance and video artist Joan Jonas's 1974 video, an elliptical narrative that moves between the countryside of Nova Scotia and the artists's New York City studio.
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An illustrated study of performance and video artist Joan Jonas's 1974 video, an elliptical narrative that moves between the countryside of Nova Scotia and the artists's New York City studio.
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Used-Like New. Joan Jonas approaches video as a drawing tool, a mirror, and a framingdevice. Since 1968, she has used video and performance to explore ways of seeing, the rhythms of ritual, and the archetypal authority of objects and gestures. Withher influential 1976 work, I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances) Jonasnimbly structures an elliptical narrative that unmistakably establishes her voiceand visual lexicon. I Want to Live in the Country features two locations--theuntamed landscape of Nova Scotia and an artist's studio in New York City--as itexamines themes of loss, displacement, time, and memory through still lifecompositions and Super-8 footage. Jonas creates a meditation of frames withinframes, monitors within monitors, overlaid with poetic musings--a murmured story ofthe unconscious. Jonas's influences have included the writing of Samuel Beckett, thefilms of Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese Noh theater, and the work of John Cage. Strippeddown to intimate, indelible gestures, I Want to Live in the Country (And OtherRomances) explores a Beckettian dilemma: 'I am both the observer and the object thatI observe. Which of the two is the real 'I'? ' In this richly illustrated Afterallbook, Susan Morgan examines the emergence of Jonas's original work from thissynthesis of influences and ideas. Joan Jonas, Professor of Visual Arts at MIT, isknown for her pioneering video and performance art. An illustrated study of performance and video artist Joan Jonas's 1976 video, an elliptical narrative that moves between the countryside of Nova Scotia and a television studio in New York City. Book has minor shelf wear.
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