Because video art has emerged as one of the most exciting new art forms of the last 40 years and because Gary Hill is one of the medium's most articulate practitioners and thought provokers, this first critical edition devoted to Hill's works should excite fans of both Hill and video art. The book is broken up into three sections: 15 critical essays, including one by Jacques Derrida; six interviews; and seven short examples of Hill's writing. In the middle there is a b&w gallery of photos of Hill's work, and, at the end, a kind of curriculum vitae termed a "biography," then a selected videography, and finally, a very large bibliography. Hill should be of interest to any artist, but especially those interested in different interactions, especially those between artist, artwork, and viewer, and between the "space" inside and the space outside the art work. Morgan is an artist, critic, art historian, author of The End of the Art World and Between Modernism and Conceptual Art and professor of the history and theory of art at Rochester Institute of Technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less