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""Into the Light" accompanies the Whitney Museum of American Art's re-creation of nineteen landmark film, video, and slide installations from this prescient era. The exhibition is the largest of its kind to date, and the first to explore the history of projected installations. Many of these moving image installations have been restored especially for the exhibition, and are presented for the first time since their initial showings. Together, they reveal the ways in which traditional definitions of cinema, sculpture, and optical perception were overturned in the 1960s and early 1970s, as artists created hybrid environments that incorporated video, film, slides, performance, drawing, holography, and the participation of the viewer to explore new ideas of physical and psychological space."--BOOK JACKET.