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The intelligent irony that resonates through the video and projection installations of American artist Tony Oursler results from a subtle combination of sound, language and pop culture images. These elements are thoroughly explored in this monograph, the most extensive publication on Oursler and his work. His videos often employ a projected human face to create bizarre contemporary icons and fragmented narratives that speak to the dislocation caused by contemporary issues of sex, violence and power. Tony Oursler includes 180 illustrations from his video, sculpture and mixed-media works on paper, as well as an extensive selection of the artist's own writings. There are also two long conversations between Oursler and the artists Mike Kelley and Dan Graham, which testify to the long-lasting mutual appreciation and collaboration between them. This is a major new publication on the career of one of the most important American artists of the last two decades.
This book documents the visual elements of the 'The Influence of the Machine', the projections onto buildings, trees and smoke, but also the transcripts of the monologues that provided a haunting sound track to the images.
"Tony Oursler was born in 1957 in New York, where he lives and works. His family background included writers and painters, with a strong belief that content is more important than form, a prominent feature of his own life. The book looks at the creative career of this artist who has always distinguished himself for his ability to use new idioms from mass communications, from the first videotapes, produced at the age of just over twenty, to the unsettling, disturbing figurative works of the early nineties."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
In the late 1970s, while students at Cal Arts, Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley formed a band called first, polka Dot and the Spots, and finally, The Poetics. This little-known musical aggregation was proceeded perhaps only by The Weirdos (an early LA punk band with members from Cal Arts) as one of the first New Wave Art Rock bands of that period. Inspired by Laurie Anderson's class at Cal Arts, Kelley and Oursler's band was experimenting with ways to integrate visual arts with music. This limited edition package documents the brief life of The Poetics.
Dit werk is de eerste publicatie die volledig aan de poetische teksten van Tony Oursler is gewijd. Het bevat een vijftigtal integrale transcripties van videowerken die hij tussen 1977 en 2013 maakte. Ze worden geplaatst in de context waarin ze ontstonden, vergezeld van een rijk geillustreerde kritische beschouwingen. Doordat de kunstenaar dit werk zelf heeft samengesteld, als een boeket waarin de taal in een vuurwerk van kleuren en klanken uiteenspat, kan Vox Vernacular als een echte anthologie worden beschouwd."