The New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960-65 by John Alan Farmer; Naomi Sawelson-Gorse; Foreword-Elizabeth Ferrer - 2001-01

University of Texas Press, 2001-01-01. paperback. New. 9x0x11.

Austin, Texas: Austin Museum of Art, 2000. 102 pages; numerous illustrations. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name. Inscribed by the curator on the title page: "much love ! John".. Inscribed by the author. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, 2000. paperback. fine. Television emerged as the dominant mass medium in the United States during the era that President John F. Kennedy termed the New Frontier. Although television would soon be decried as "a vast wasteland," during this era artists began to engage with the medium in a sustained manner for the first time--and not just as an object to be pictured, but as a system that demanded a renegotiation of the relationship between the realms of art and life. The New Frontier is the catalogue of the first exhibition to examine the impact of television on the visual arts in the United States at a crucial period in the development of both. With a lively selection of nearly seventy-five paintings, sculptures, installations, films, videos, photographs, and documents from the United States and Europe, it explores how twenty artists, including Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Lee Friedlander, Dennis Hopper, Edward Kienholz, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Robert… Read More