Lyn Blumenthal
Lyn Blumenthal forged new directions and objectives for the field of independent video—not only creating important video pieces but also envisioning alternative video as a critical voice within the culture, capable of exposing the numerous foibles and blind spots of mainstream media. Committed to the application of feminist theory to video practice, Blumenthal's early '80s art tapes investigate issues of women's identity and sexuality as a crisis of representation. Her tapes weave together stunning visuals and theoretical analysis, most with an incisive humor that tears away the veil from cultural institutions such as television and the family. Blumenthal was also a founding co-director of the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

"The world is divided between 'his' culture and 'her' nature. My own resistance to this demands that I am forever dodging his projects of representation, of reproduction, of his grasp. That this resistance should all too often take the form of a death struggle between two consciousnesses does not alter the fact that at stake here, somewhere, evermore insistent in its deathly hauteur, is the risk that the subject as self will crumble away. What if the 'object' started to speak?"
—Lyn Blumenthal

  

Titles by Lyn Blumenthal:

A.D. Coleman: An Interview

Agnes Martin 1974: An Interview

Agnes Martin 1976: An Interview

Alex Katz: An Interview

Alice Aycock: An Interview

Alice Neel: An Interview

Allan Kaprow: An Interview

Allen Ginsberg: An Interview

Arcade

Arlene Raven: An Interview

Audrey Flack: An Interview

Barbara Kruger: An Interview

Betty Parsons: An Interview

Buckminster Fuller: An Interview

Chantal Akerman: An Interview

Charles Simonds: An Interview

Chuck Close: An Interview

Craig Owens: An Interview

Doublecross

Ed Paschke: An Interview

Elizabeth Murray 1977: An Interview

Elizabeth Murray 1982: An Interview

Eric Fischl: An Interview

Estelle Jussim: An Interview

Hans Haacke: An Interview

Hollis Sigler 1983: An Interview

Jack Tworkov: An Interview

Jennifer Bartlett: An Interview

Jim Dine: An Interview

Joan Brown: An Interview

Joan Mitchell: An Interview

Joel Shapiro: An Interview

John Baldessari: An Interview

Joseph Beuys: An Interview

Judy Chicago: An Interview

Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party

Laurie Anderson: An Interview

Lee Krasner: An Interview

Linda M. Montano: An Interview

Louise Bourgeois: An Interview

Louise Fishman: An Interview

Lucy Lippard 1974: An Interview

Lucy Lippard 1979: An Interview

Marcia Tucker 1974: An Interview

Marcia Tucker 1977: An Interview

Martha Rosler: An Interview

Mary Miss: An Interview

Miriam Schapiro: An Interview

Miyoko Ito: An Interview

Nancy Graves 1975: An Interview

Nancy Graves 1978: An Interview

Nancy Grossman 1975: An Interview

Nancy Grossman 1981: An Interview

Nancy Spero: An Interview

Nathan Lyons: An Interview

Pat Steir 1975: An Interview

Pat Steir 1980: An Interview

Peter Schjeldahl: An Interview

Philip Pearlstein: An Interview

Phyllis Bramson: An Interview

Rackstraw Downes: An Interview

Robert Heineken: An Interview

Robert Irwin: An Interview

Robert Ryman 1979: An Interview

Roger Brown: An Interview

Ron Gorchov: An Interview

Rudy Burckhardt: An Interview

Social Studies, Part I: Horizontes

Social Studies, Part II: The Academy

Sol Lewitt: An Interview

Stan Brakhage: An Interview

Susan Rothenberg: An Interview

Thomas Lawson: An Interview

Tom Lawson: An Interview

Vito Acconci: An Interview

William T. Wiley: An Interview

Women with a Past

Yvonne Jacquette: An Interview

Yvonne Rainer: An Interview