As The Concept Of Image

This dissertation focuses on the development of art configuration during the transition period of western modernistic art in 1960s and 1970s.In nature,it is based on the research of art reality.In the 60's and 70's of 20th century,many schools and movements occurred,in the face of new art practice,modernistic art theory has been lack of explanatory power,using formalism as the only standard and value to describe the expectations of art history has shown a great sense of powerlessness.During this period,the video factors began to be involved in ontology among the western contemporary art,and gradually began to form its own independent artistic value.In this paper,the problem I want to solve is that in this transition stage,why and how videos can be involved in the ontology of art,and became video art later step by step.And I also want to get a further understanding about the history of western art in that period through studying this particular topic.In this dissertation,the evolution and development in the concept of modernistic art object are taken as the main clue.In the sixties and seventies,the concept of modernistic art object was collapsed with the new art practice and the new historical realities,by research focus on that,I want to find its own development logic of video art.The core of the development logic lies on:the concept became art itself.Concept is the soul of video art,that is why an electronic copier can be deemed to be an art object.Video art itself is a multi-source hybrid art form,its origins are closely related to conceptual art and performance art,to the mass media culture of television,to the art concepts of Dada and Fluxus,and then forward retrospective, to the progress of minimalism turning to material.The relevance of these different points together built the ideological framework of video art.The practice of early video art reflected the different effects on artists and a wide range of issues,artists' own practice interpreted the avant-garde meaning of the early video art.The early video art heritaged the undoubted parts of avant-garde artistic ideas of modernism——criticize the reality.This is the function of avant-garde concept in phylogeny.Video is a "cheap" media and low quality media,through exploring in its creative way,early video art provided a creative space against the art business systems and the consumer-led mass media culture system,against gender injustice and other social and political status quo.At the lowest cost,video art got the maximum efficiency to transmit art message,to extend art tentacles to broader areas of the realities.Although video art today is still inevitably involved into the art market,however,as an avant-garde conception, video art is of great significance for us to understand contemporary art.