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February 27, 2004
Michael Rush Video Art London: Thames and Hudson, 2003. 208 pp.; 383 color ills. Cloth $45.00 (0500237980)
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Defined straightforwardly, video art is that visual art created using video cameras. As Michael Rush points out in his superbly well-illustrated survey history, the medium’s creation can be dated very precisely: the video era was inaugurated when in 1965 Sony Corporation marketed a financially available hand-held camera and portable tape recorder. As he then goes on to note, this novel technology was soon put to use by a great number of artists. Video Art is...