Art and Television

Catalog description

Critical introduction to the interrelation of technology and visual art using the tools of art history and media/cultural studies. Students read theorists of the relation between visual art and the mass media, and use them to analyze early presentations of visual art and art history on television of the 1960s and 1970s. Examines the contemporaneous and parallel development of video art--an artistic medium appropriated from television technology--through the study of key video artworks.