Avant-Garde Videogames: Playing with Technoculture

by Brian Schrank and Jay David Bolter

An exploration of avant-garde games that builds upon the formal and political modes of contemporary and historical art movements.

The avant-garde challenges or leads culture; it opens up or redefines art forms and our perception of the way the world works. In this book, Brian Schrank describes the ways that the avant-garde emerges through videogames. Just as impressionism or cubism created alternative ways of making and viewing paintings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262027143
• ISBN13: 9780262027144
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher