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February 27, 2004
Michael Rush Video Art Thames & Hudson, 2003. 224 pp.; 296 color ills.; 87 b/w ills. Cloth $45.00 (0500237980)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.14

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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...