Damnation of Faust : [videorecording] charming landscapes / by Dara Birnbaum. [1987]

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Damnation of Faust : [videorecording] charming landscapes / by Dara Birnbaum. [1987]

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The final work in the Damnation of Faust trilogy investigates the way in which the urban landscape is a place where you lose your identity. Casual interviews with two female residents of the inner city are juxtaposed with found television news footage, from the American Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests of the 1960s to student uprisings in China in the 1980s. Birnbaum shifts her focus from the individual to the social being, as she examines the collusion of personal history and collective memory through technology and mediated images.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (7 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...