“Video art is art that will stretch the boundaries of the art world.”

— Gregory Battcock

Gregory Battcock early 1970s, as quoted in: "Art history course 2013-14," at uchicago.edu, Department of Art History, 18 Feb. 2014.

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1937–1980

Gregory Battcock (1937–1980)

Gregory Battcock. New Artists’ Video, an anthology, (1978) p. xiii. Introduction:
Listing of the several general questions to which video art gave rise to in those days.

“Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.”

Emile Zola (1840–1902) French writer (1840-1902)

Source: Le Naturalisme Au Theatre

“The boundary between art and kitsch was negotiable, even porous.”

Alastair Reynolds book Blue Remembered Earth

Source: Blue Remembered Earth (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 162)

“Kinetic art was created by artists who pushed the boundaries of traditional, static art forms to introduce visual experiences that would engage the audience and profoundly change the course of modern art.”

Theo Jansen (1948) artist

Theo Jansen, quoted in: " 2015 International Kinetic Art Exhibit & Symposium - Boynton Beach, FL, USA http://intlkineticartevent.org/?page_id=107," 2015

“The arts have always transcended national boundaries as the haiku demonstrates.”

William J. Higginson (1938–2008) American writer

“The shape and direction of video art's accelerated growth, since virtual nonexistence in the mid-'60s up to the present, has been influenced primarily by the priorities of major funders-the New York State Council on the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. It has matured without the bevy of individual collectors who support more established forms such as painting and sculpture. Within video's media arts centers and funding organizations, there are many advocates, administrators, and curators who provide an infrastructure which enables artists to produce and distribute work, often doing so with little publicity or recognition. In this realm, Howard Wise stands out as an individual benefactor who preceded and has supplemented private foundations and public monies. He has been a central figure in the visibility, production, and acceptance of video art. For almost 20 years, he has been one of the few patrons of video art.”

Marita Sturken (1957) American academic

Marita Sturken. " TV as a Creative Medium: Howard Wise and Video Art http://www.vasulka.org/archive/4-30c/AfterImageMay84(1004).pdf," in: Afterimage, May 1984

“The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.”

Theodor W. Adorno book Aesthetic Theory

Source: Aesthetic Theory

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

“The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.”

Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) American painter

Quote of Ad Reinhardt (1963); as cited in: Joseph Kosuth, (1969), " Art after Philosophy http://www.ubu.com/papers/kosuth_philosophy.html"
1956 - 1967
Variant: The one thing to say about art is that it is one thing. Art is art-as-art and everything else is everything else. Art as art is nothing but art. Art is not what is not art.

“For where thou art, there is the world itself,
With every several pleasure in the world,
And where thou art not, desolation.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Source: King Henry VI, Part 2

“Video art is art that will stretch the boundaries of the art world.”

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