93 Musicians and Artists – The Fascinating History of the Video Clip
Happy was he who owned a television set in the 1980s and 1990s: musicians like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Peter Gabriel, the Pet Shop Boys, Björk, Daft Punk, or the White Stripes and directors like Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham, David LaChapelle, Mark Romanek, or Jonathan Glazer overwhelmed music fans with their creative imaginations, paving new ways also for video art and film. Long before the music television network MTV launched on August 1, 1981 with the Buggles clip Video Killed the Radio Star, however, the pop video had been firmly established as a format for the dissemination of musical and aesthetic innovation. Today, visual artists such as Tom Dale, Christian Jankowsky, Erik van Lieshout, Michael Smith, or Wolfgang Tillmans increasingly draw on the form of the music video for their own work. With the spread of high speed Internet access, more and more clips are made by amateurs. At the same time, many pop video directors, breaking free of television’s blandness diktat, are exploring polarizing issues such as teenage violence or politics, driving a new boom of the music video. The Art of Pop Video displays the whole range of forms of expression in the music video, presents its filmic precursors, and ventures a glimpse into its future.

Essays by Michael P. Aust, Daniel Kothenschulte, and others; interviews with Michel Gondry and others.

DVD featuring clips by: Erykah Badu, Bleip, Kenneth Bager, Blurred Vision, The Buggles, Cornelius, Marianne Faithfull, Fettes Brot, Lasse Gjertsen, Alex Gopher, Klonhertz, Manos de Topo, Carsten Nicolai, Noonday Underground, Paula, Pet Shop Boys, Radiohead, Sensorama, SchneiderTM, Nina Simone, Lyapis Trubetskoy, UNKLE [ ft. Thom Yorke ], Weezwe, Amy Winehouse, Zoot Woman
Artists: Add N to (X), Air, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Richard Ashcroft, Fred Astaire, Erykah Badu, Kenneth Bager, The Beatles, Björk, Bleip, Blurred Vision, The Buggles, Johnny Cash, Coldplay, Cornelius, Curiosity Killed The Cat, Daft Punk, Daft Punk vs. Adam Freeland, Tom Dale, Jan Delay, Depeche Mode, DJ Shadow, Bob Dylan, Earlimart, Duke Ellington, Marianne Faithfull, Fatboy Slim, Franz Ferdinand, Fettes Brot, Freeland, Peter Gabriel, Garbage, Lasse Gjertsen, Alex Gopher, Godley & Creme, Gorillaz, Macy Grey, Groove Armada, INXS, Michael Jackson, Justice vs. Simian, The Kinks, Klonhertz, Kraftwerk, Lacquer, Lady Gaga, Laibach, Annie Lennox, Leftfield, M, Madonna, Make the girl dance, Manos de Topo, Freddy Martin & Orchestra, The Matches, George Michael, Kylie Minogue, Mint Royale, New Order, Carsten Nicolai, Nirvana, Noonday Underground, Obama Girl, Ok Go, Paula, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, Plaid, Prince, Procol Harum, The Prodigy, Propaganda, Queen, Radiohead, Rammstein, Lionel Richie, Pipilotti Rist, SchneiderTM, Sensorama, Nina Simone, Amon Tobin, Lyapis Trubetskoy, U2, UNKLE [ft. Thom Yorke], Weezer, Weird Al Yankovic, White Stripes, Whomadewho, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse, Wir sind Helden, YMCK, Yo La Tengo, Zoot Woman

German / English text
24 x 17 cm
224 pages
Paperback incl. DVD with 24 clips