Victor Burgin: Between

In the visual arts, the most radical of today's 'postmodernist' tendencies has been the challenge posed to traditional, previously unquestioned, assumptions by contemporary ideas about representation, deriving from semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism. The work of Victor Burgin has had a particular impact.

Victor Burgin is known equally for his theoretical writings as for his work as an artist. This book brings Burgin's innovative and influential work to a wider audience. Interweaving his visual work with fragments from interviews, talks and letters, it offers insight into the relation of 'theory' to 'practice' in a form of art which has undermined the very basis of this distinction.

Educated at the Royal College of Art and Yale University, Victor Burgin is Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of the Visual Arts at the Polytechnic of Central London, Faculty of Communication.

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