During the late 1960s and the 1970s, a significant paradigm
shift occurred within postwar visual culture: photography and the moving
image were absorbed into critical contemporary art practices. In particular,
they
were used to record ephemeral or performative events, or to render visible
conceptual systems for creating work. Moving Pictures, which focuses primarily
on art of the last decade, proposes that the extensive use of reproducible
mediums in today’s art has its roots in this formative period. [more]