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Beschrijving: Highly influential both as an artist and as a theoretician Victor Burgin figures amongst the most insightful thinkers on visual culture in recent times. His writings focus on the production of meanings and affects through images â at the intersections of subjective desire and sociopolitical organization â and cross a diversity of representational practices (photography, film, painting, advertising, television, the internet) and theoretical fields (semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cultural studies). The essays in this volume provide a succinct overview of Burginâs rich and multifaceted work during the last forty years â from its origins in debates within the Conceptual Art movement to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as âSituational Aestheticsâ and âPhotographic Practice and Art Theoryâ, together with less widely-known articles such as âWork and Commentaryâ and the previously unpublished essays âShadows,Time and Family Picturesâ and âMonument and Melancholiaâ. The essays are arranged chronologically in sections to represent four salient phases of Burginâs preoccupations: Conceptual art and photography; A psychical realism; The city and global media; Infinite film. Each section is preceded by an exchange between Victor Burgin and the bookâs editor, Alexander Streitberger, to introduce the main lines of thought. Examples from Burginâs visual works, selected by the editor in consultation with the artist, accompany each section.

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