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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994
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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994 Trade paperback - 1995

by Bill Viola

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The MIT Press, December 1995. Trade Paperback. VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners a bit bumped, some creasing/scuffing/wear to covers and spine. binding is straight and tight with no marks to text or other serious flaws.
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  • Title Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994
  • Author Bill Viola
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - VG-
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The MIT Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  • Date December 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1412296
  • ISBN 9780262720250 / 0262720256
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.53 x 1.08 in (23.55 x 16.59 x 2.74 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Viola, Bill - Philosophy, Viola, Bill - Themes, motives
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95014426
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.92

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From the rear cover

Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, artist Bill Viola is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, interviews, drawings and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each work illustrated is accompanied by a description by the artist as well as comments on the work's origins from the artist's notebooks. For the last 25 years, Viola has used innovative multimedia technologies to explore the phenomenon of sense perception as a language of the body and avenue to self-knowledge, integrating many disciplines and philosophies to reveal contemporary art's relevance to the modern world. His views have deep roots in mysticism, poetry, philosophy, Eastern art, shamanism, Chinese Taoism, Sufism, and Zen Buddhism. One of Viola's chief concerns today is to focus on the connection between our inner and outer lives, on the conception of the self as part of the whole.

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