Against the "subject" of video, circa 1976 : Joan Jonas's Good night good morning and an archive of "narcissism"
| dc.contributor.advisor | Reynolds, Ann Morris | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Tejada, Roberto | en |
| dc.creator | Williams, Robin Kathleen, 1981- | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-19T19:33:00Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-19T19:33:00Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-19T19:33:07Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-08 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2010 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2010-10-19T19:33:07Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis analyzes the relationship between Joan Jonas’s 1976 videotape Good Night Good Morning and the existing historiographical discourse on video art from the 1970s. I begin with a careful analysis and historical contextualization of Rosalind Krauss’s seminal 1976 essay on video art, “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” I then compare her essay with a number of present-day interpretations of video art that are in part motivated by a departure from Krauss and identify a range of presuppositions that have persisted through the art historical discourse on video art from the mid-1970s forward. Finally, I demonstrate that the terms of this essentially medium-specific discourse are too limited to offer a satisfying analysis of Good Night Good Morning and argue that understanding Jonas’s work requires an intermedial analysis. | en |
| dc.description.department | Art and Art History | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1810 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | 1970s video art | en |
| dc.subject | Discourse analysis | en |
| dc.subject | Joan Jonas | en |
| dc.subject | Rosalind Krauss | en |
| dc.title | Against the "subject" of video, circa 1976 : Joan Jonas's Good night good morning and an archive of "narcissism" | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Art and Art History | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Art History | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts | en |