Bill Viola: The Passions

Book Overview

Human emotions are the subject of The Passions, a series of 20 video works made by the contemporary artist Bill Viola (b. 1951). Since the mid-1970s, Viola's video installations have dealt with themes of perception, memory and self-knowledge. In these new works he has grappled with one of the oldest problems in art: how to convey the power and complexity of emotion by depicting the facial expressions and body language of models or, in Viola's case, of performers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892367202
• ISBN13: 9780892367207
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.2" x 0.9" x 10.2"