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. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1810 |
| Date | 19 October 2010 |
| Creators | Williams, Robin Kathleen, 1981- |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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