Against the "subject" of video, circa 1976 : Joan Jonas's Good night good morning and an archive of "narcissism"

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dc.contributor.advisorReynolds, Ann Morrisen
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTejada, Robertoen
dc.creatorWilliams, Robin Kathleen, 1981-en
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-19T19:33:00Zen
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-19T19:33:07Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:20:23Z
dc.date.available2010-10-19T19:33:00Zen
dc.date.available2010-10-19T19:33:07Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:20:23Z
dc.date.issued2010-08en
dc.date.submittedAugust 2010en
dc.date.updated2010-10-19T19:33:07Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyzes the relationship between Joan Jonas’s 1976 videotape Good Night Good Morning and the existing historiographical discourse on video art from the 1970s. I begin with a careful analysis and historical contextualization of Rosalind Krauss’s seminal 1976 essay on video art, “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” I then compare her essay with a number of present-day interpretations of video art that are in part motivated by a departure from Krauss and identify a range of presuppositions that have persisted through the art historical discourse on video art from the mid-1970s forward. Finally, I demonstrate that the terms of this essentially medium-specific discourse are too limited to offer a satisfying analysis of Good Night Good Morning and argue that understanding Jonas’s work requires an intermedial analysis.en
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1810en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subject1970s video arten
dc.subjectDiscourse analysisen
dc.subjectJoan Jonasen
dc.subjectRosalind Kraussen
dc.titleAgainst the "subject" of video, circa 1976 : Joan Jonas's Good night good morning and an archive of "narcissism"en
dc.type.genrethesisen

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