Nancy Holt: Time Outs
Nancy Holt’s rich artistic output spans concrete poetry, audioworks, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, public sculpture commissions, and artists’ books. A new media artist of her time, she experimented with all kinds of reproductive imagery, and made significant contributions to the emerging realm of video art.
In 1985 Nancy Holt published her second artist’s book Time Outs with the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. It consists of black-and-white photographs of American football games broadcast on television that are paired with texts consisting of commentary and interviews with the players in sports publications that Holt sourced between 1982 and 1984.
Holt closes the book with a statement about how the book evolved out of her earlier artist’s book Ransacked (1980) and her videotapes Underscan (1974) and Revolve (1977). She then goes on to provide a personal note about the context of Time Outs:
On a personal, biographical level, this book comes out of my interest as a youngster in watching sports on television. Between the ages of eleven and fourteen I was a TV baseball addict, avidly devouring statistics past and present—batting averages, pitching records, numbers of home runs, etc. Being a good softball player, and being more knowledgeable about baseball than the boys and my father and his friends, caused much confusion, with my parents worrying over the “masculine” direction that their daughter’s life was taking. At that time I was a Yankee fan and lived in northern New Jersey, not so far from Yankee Stadium. But in an effort to save me from my tomboy tendencies, my father refused for years to take me to the ballpark. This, of course, was quite devastating to me, and certainly no cure for my video-sports habit, which was somehow begrudgingly allowed. Years later my father apologized for this, considering it one of his greatest paternal errors. In a way, this book may begin to turn that error around.
Artist Book
Specifications
Visual Studies Workshop, 1985
ISBN 0898220432
Paperback
64 pages
280 x 230 mm / 11 x 8 1/2 inches
English
Out of Print
$350
Nancy Holt’s rich artistic output spans concrete poetry, audioworks, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, public sculpture commissions, and artists’ books. A new media artist of her time, she experimented with all kinds of reproductive imagery, and made significant contributions to the emerging realm of video art.
In 1985 Nancy Holt published her second artist’s book Time Outs with the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. It consists of black-and-white photographs of American football games broadcast on television that are paired with texts consisting of commentary and interviews with the players in sports publications that Holt sourced between 1982 and 1984.
Holt closes the book with a statement about how the book evolved out of her earlier artist’s book Ransacked (1980) and her videotapes Underscan (1974) and Revolve (1977). She then goes on to provide a personal note about the context of Time Outs:
On a personal, biographical level, this book comes out of my interest as a youngster in watching sports on television. Between the ages of eleven and fourteen I was a TV baseball addict, avidly devouring statistics past and present—batting averages, pitching records, numbers of home runs, etc. Being a good softball player, and being more knowledgeable about baseball than the boys and my father and his friends, caused much confusion, with my parents worrying over the “masculine” direction that their daughter’s life was taking. At that time I was a Yankee fan and lived in northern New Jersey, not so far from Yankee Stadium. But in an effort to save me from my tomboy tendencies, my father refused for years to take me to the ballpark. This, of course, was quite devastating to me, and certainly no cure for my video-sports habit, which was somehow begrudgingly allowed. Years later my father apologized for this, considering it one of his greatest paternal errors. In a way, this book may begin to turn that error around.
Artist Book
Specifications
Visual Studies Workshop, 1985
ISBN 0898220432
Paperback
64 pages
280 x 230 mm / 11 x 8 1/2 inches
English
Out of Print
$350
Nancy Holt’s rich artistic output spans concrete poetry, audioworks, film and video, photography, slideworks, ephemeral gestures, drawings, room-sized installations, earthworks, public sculpture commissions, and artists’ books. A new media artist of her time, she experimented with all kinds of reproductive imagery, and made significant contributions to the emerging realm of video art.
In 1985 Nancy Holt published her second artist’s book Time Outs with the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. It consists of black-and-white photographs of American football games broadcast on television that are paired with texts consisting of commentary and interviews with the players in sports publications that Holt sourced between 1982 and 1984.
Holt closes the book with a statement about how the book evolved out of her earlier artist’s book Ransacked (1980) and her videotapes Underscan (1974) and Revolve (1977). She then goes on to provide a personal note about the context of Time Outs:
On a personal, biographical level, this book comes out of my interest as a youngster in watching sports on television. Between the ages of eleven and fourteen I was a TV baseball addict, avidly devouring statistics past and present—batting averages, pitching records, numbers of home runs, etc. Being a good softball player, and being more knowledgeable about baseball than the boys and my father and his friends, caused much confusion, with my parents worrying over the “masculine” direction that their daughter’s life was taking. At that time I was a Yankee fan and lived in northern New Jersey, not so far from Yankee Stadium. But in an effort to save me from my tomboy tendencies, my father refused for years to take me to the ballpark. This, of course, was quite devastating to me, and certainly no cure for my video-sports habit, which was somehow begrudgingly allowed. Years later my father apologized for this, considering it one of his greatest paternal errors. In a way, this book may begin to turn that error around.
Artist Book
Specifications
Visual Studies Workshop, 1985
ISBN 0898220432
Paperback
64 pages
280 x 230 mm / 11 x 8 1/2 inches
English
Out of Print
$350