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Text Credits

All text entries and quotations in The Art section of this site are excerpted from the following sources:

'Bill Viola: The Passions', exhibition catalogue, edited by John Walsh with essays by John Walsh and Peter Sellars, a conversation between Hans Belting and Bill Viola, and descriptions and documentation by Bill Viola and Kira Perov. J. Paul Getty Museum; Los Angeles, 2003. Catalogue copyright © 2003 J.Paul Getty Trust. Used with the permission of the J. Paul Getty Trust.

Bill Viola, 'Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994'. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in association with the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1995

Bill Viola, Artist's description of various works in the exhibition.

Conversations between Getty staff and Bill Viola on site at the Getty Center.


Saint John of the Cross poem from 'A sketch of Mt. Carmel by St. John of the Cross' reproduced in 'The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross'. Transl. Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D. and Otilio Rodriguez, O.C.D., ICS Publications, Institute for Carmelite Studies, Washington, D.C., 1979

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