Situational aesthetics : selected writings by Victor Burgin

We cite from the COVER:
"Highly influential both as an artist and as a theoretician Victor Bürgin figures amongst the most insightful thinkers on visual culture in recent times. His writings focus on the production of meanings and affects through images at the intersections of subjective desire and socio-political organization and cross a diversity of representational practices (photography, film, painting, advertising, the internet) and theoretical fields (semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cultural studies)."
"The essays in this volume provide a succinct overview of Burgin's rich and multifaceted work during the last forty years, from its origins in debates within the Conceptual Art movement to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The essays are arranged chronologically in sections to represent four salient phases of Burgin's preoccupations: Conceptual Art and Photography; A Psychical Realism; The City and Global Media; and The Perpetual Infinite Film. Each section is preceded by an exchange between Victor Bürgin and the book's editor, Alexander Streitberger, to introduce the main lines of thought. Examples from Burgin's visual works, selected by the editor in consultation with the artist, accompany each section."
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