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Claire Doherty, Angela Weight and Richard Hylton. Introduced by Steven Bode
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ISBN 1 90427 014 X
PRICE £12.50
Jananne Al-Ani's haunting, delicately honed work in video and photography is distinguished by its evocative portraits and its intimate and compelling narratives.
This publication is the first monographic survey of Jananne Al-Ani's work highlighting video installations from 1996 onwards while referencing a selection of earlier photographic pieces. With the aid of two newly commissioned essays and an interview with the artist, the book traces themes and preoccupations that have persisted over that time and which continue to reverberate throughout this highly inventive and distinctive body of work.
Claire Doherty's text The Triumph of Echo explores tragedy in theatre, film and art, while Angela Weight examines the development of the artist's concerns from her earlier photographic work to her most recent video installations. Richard Hylton's interview grants a rare insight into the way Al-Ani's practice negotiates the problematic legacies of Orientalism.
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Jeremy Millar and Claire Doherty
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ISBN 1 84166 027 2
PRICE £12.00
Elegant, haunting and arresting, the film and video works of Jane and Louise Wilson have attracted increasing acclaim and attention, including a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. Specialising in supremely vivid evocations of a particular spirit-of-place, the Wilsons draw on cinematic conventions and allusions to conjure a heightened, often uncanny atmosphere. The first extensive monograph on their practice, this book explores the Wilsons' single-channel videos and films, as well as the powerful, hypnotic multi-screen installations that have made their names.
Minigraphs is a series of publications developed by Film and Video Umbrella devoted to contemporary artists working with film and video. Fully illustrated, and with specially commissioned essays and an extensive lists of works, this series provides an attractive and indispensable introduction to some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists.
Part-supported by London Film and Video Development Agency.
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Charles Esche and David Batchelor
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ISBN 1 84166 026 4
PRICE £12.00
Since they began collaborating in 1993, John Wood and Paul Harrison have accumulated a series of playful and beguiling video works which are distinguished as much by their droll humour as their unerring economy of execution. Played out against a minimalist, monochrome backdrop, or within the sealed-off space of the monitor itself, each of the works involves the presence of one or other of the artists, either as the butt of an extended sight-gag or as the trigger for a spiralling, visually surprising conceit.
Minigraphs is a series of publications developed by Film and Video Umbrella devoted to contemporary artists working with film and video. Fully illustrated, and with specially commissioned essays and an extensive lists of works, this series provides an attractive and indispensable introduction to some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists.
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Sally O'Reilly, Julie Henry and Steven Bode
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ISBN 1 90427 002 6
PRICE £6.95
This is the first monographic survey of Julie Henry's work, focussing in particular on five of video and photographic pieces produced between 1999 and 2002. Moving from provincial dancehalls to the terraces of football grounds, and from contemporary video-game whiz kids to aficionados of 1970s pub-sports, Henry's work documents and celebrates the subcultures and rituals of those who live to play hard far beneath the radar of celebrity endorsements and corporate sponsorship. This large-format, lavishly illustrated colour publication includes two essays as well as Henry's own observations on each of the pieces.
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