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Video: The Reflexive Medium

by Yvonne Spielmann

The MIT Press

April 2008, 371 pages, $40.00

by R.J. Grubb

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Spielmann discusses a generation of early video artists who dedicated themselves to the new medium and collectively explored its technical properties, distinguishing video from film, painting and sculpture in the process.

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