Dara Birnbaum.
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh (Editor).
Rough Edits: Popular Image Video:Works 1977-1980.
Halifax: Nova Scotia Pamphlets, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1987.
Softcover.
130 pages.
Very Good. Light wear to covers.
Transcripts of interviews with Birnbaum by Florence Gilbard, Tom Bowes, John G. Hanhardt, Barbara London, Eric Trigg, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Norman M. Klein as well as Klein's essay Audience Culture and the Video Screen. Also present is a videography, exhibition list and selected bibliography.
Deep dive into Birnbaum's video art explorations of television, mass media and culture.
Dara Birnbaum was an American video and installation artist based in New York City. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s, challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the American household.
