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Revolution of the eye : modern art and the birth of American television
The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in art and design. This engaging catalogue is the first book to comprehensively examine the way avant-garde art shaped the look and content of network television in its formative years, from the 1940s through the mid-1970s. -- Page [4] of cover.
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Staging art and Chineseness
This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways in which cultural objects are attributed to the artist's residency, homeland or citizenship rather than cultural tradition, style or practice. Acknowledging historical definitions of Chineseness, including the orientalist assumptions of the past and the cultural-mixing of the present, the book's case studies address the paradoxes and contradictions of representation. An analysis of the historical matrix of global expositions reveals the structural connections among art, culture, capital and nation.This book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways in which cultural objects are attributed to the artist's residency, homeland or citizenship rather than cultural tradition, style or practice. Acknowledging historical definitions of Chineseness, including the orientalist assumptions of the past and the cultural-mixing of the present, the book's case studies address the paradoxes and contradictions of representation. An analysis of the historical matrix of global expositions reveals the structural connections among art, culture, capital and nation.
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PBS newshour. Just a Dream offers a glimpse of tragedy and triumph of life in contemporary America
The exhibition, \"Just a Dream,” presents 25 years of work from Vincent Valdez in a series of chapters that look at both personal and collective histories. Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met with Valdez for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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Cultural canvas. Experience the rural creativity, explore the artistic inspiration : the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan
The program delves into the role of art in rural revitalization. By exploring the challenges of aging and depopulation in the Echigo-Tsumari region of Japan, it reveals how art transforms this ailing land into an internationally recognized model of rural art revitalization.
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Fugitive Video: Art in 1980s New York Nightclubs
This article examines the untold history of video art in New York City nightclubs of the 1980s. Shaped by communal practice, fueled by narcotics, and backed by the mob, clubs provided a radically different milieu than the art world for the making, exhibition, and reception of video art.
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Reconciling Video and Film in Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider’s Wipe Cycle
The Howard Wise Gallery's 1969 exhibition Television as a Creative Medium brought together Frank Gillette and Ira Schneider, artists who adamantly asserted the technological differences between film and video and their effects. For Schneider, video's immediate playback technology \"fosters a life quality that I didn't always get on film\" (Gillette and Schneider 9). For Gillette, seeing oneself via video technology is much different from seeing oneself on film. Feedback on tape is \"the first genuine view from the outside of what the inside is like.\" Gillette points out the potential of two-way communication with television that is not possible with film: \"Television is something you feedback with as much as you receive with—which is a symbiosis—which works both ways\" (Gillette and Schneider 9). These artists' beliefs would lead them some months later to become founding members of the Raindance Corporation video collective. The participants in this group considered video almost solely as a technological instrument for intervening in the crisis of ecology and consciousness that had come to light in the 1960s and '70s. The editorial statement from the group's first issue of its influential publication, Radical Software, characterizes the technological bent of the collective, inflected by information theory and computer science:
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PBS newshour. 'Brains and Beauty' exhibit explores how the mind processes art and aesthetic experiences
Visual art is a subjective experience, but what draws one person into an artwork and turns off another? A new exhibit, \"Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience,\" explores that question by examining how the brain processes aesthetic experiences. Stephanie Sy reports from Arizona for our look at the intersection of art and health, part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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Going to the Video Hall: A Sensory Encounter with a New Urban Space in Post-Mao China
Against the rising tide of marketization sweeping across China in the 1980s and 1990s, many people sought profitability by opening up private video exhibition sites to showcase bootleg videotapes. By drawing on a wide range of written sources and material artifacts—including interviews, fictional works, and photographs—this article pays special attention to how the experience of going to the video hall was remembered by the video-goers. Through an investigation into Chinese people's multisensory encounters with the video hall, this article calls for a contextualized reevaluation of such a prominent urban space against post-Mao China's turn to market reform.
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The sculpture
In a world where public art is both admired and scorned, philanthropist Basil Sellers and artist Terrance Plowright's well-intended gift of a multi million dollar public sculpture, escalates into a 10 year rollercoaster ride plagued by political inaction.
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