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    "description": "<p>Highly influential both as an artist and as a theoretician Victor Burgin figures amongst the most insightful thinkers on visual culture in recent times. His writings focus on the production of meanings and affects through images &ndash; at the intersections of subjective desire and sociopolitical organization &ndash; and cross a diversity of representational practices (photography, film, painting, advertising, television, the internet) and theoretical fields (semiotics, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cultural studies). The essays in this volume provide a succinct overview of Burgin&rsquo;s rich and multifaceted work during the last forty years &ndash; from its origins in debates within the Conceptual Art movement to its present concern with everyday perception in the environment of global media. The selection includes such classic essays as &lsquo;Situational Aesthetics&rsquo; and &lsquo;Photographic Practice and Art Theory&rsquo;, together with less widely-known articles such as &lsquo;Work and Commentary&rsquo; and the previously unpublished essays &lsquo;Shadows, Time and Family Pictures&rsquo; and &lsquo;Monument and Melancholia&rsquo;. The essays are arranged chronologically in sections to represent four salient phases of Burgin&rsquo;s preoccupations: Conceptual art and photography; A psychical realism; The city and global media; Infinite film. Each section is preceded by an exchange between Victor Burgin and the book&rsquo;s editor, Alexander Streitberger, to introduce the main lines of thought. Examples from Burgin&rsquo;s visual works, selected by the editor in consultation with the artist, accompany each section.</p>",
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