Situational Aesthetics : Selected Writings by Victor Burgin

The essays in this volume provide a succinct overview of Victor Burgin’s rich and multifaceted theoretical writing 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 Burgin 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.