Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media explores in detail the growing impact of video and computer technologies, and of the Internet, on aesthetic experience and examines the emerging role of the artist as social communicator. It recounts the involvement of such artists as Jenny Holzer, Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Gary Hill, and Laurie Anderson, among others, with electronic media and discusses the important economic, social, and aesthetic issues these new technologies imply.
- ISBN10 0131587595
- ISBN13 9780131587595
- Publish Date 4 July 1997 (first published 5 February 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 319
- Language English