New Media in Late 20th Century Art

Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design

Peter Wildbur and Michael Burke

Thames & Hudson

London

1999

176 pp.

ISBN 0 500 28077 0

£17.95

Keywords Graphic design, Media,New technology, Virtual reality

Well, it is a recent title in the prestigious World of Art series, so it must be. Plenty of usually inflated claims are made on behalf of video, computer screens and the range of modern media, and it is useful now to have a well illustrated concise, contextual, informed discussion, all in the standard World of Art format. An introduction gives the background, including film and avant‐garde cinema,...