Revolution of the Eye - Modern Art and the Birth of American Television

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jewish Museum, New York, May 1-September 20, 2015; Museum of Art / Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, October 17, 2015-February 28, 2016; The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, April 9-July 31, 2016; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 20, 2016-January 8, 2017; The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, February 16-June 11, 2017.

About the author

Maurice Berger is research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and consulting curator at the Jewish Museum. He is the author of For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Yale). Lynn Spigel is the Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures in the School of Communications at Northwestern University.

Summary

An engaging exploration of the relationship between avant-garde art and American network television from the 1940s through the 1970s

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Berger, Berger Maurice
• Assisted by: Spigel Lynn (Introduction)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2015
• EAN: 9780300207934
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20793-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: The Jewish Museum New York CoPublication series (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -