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 Rauschenberg, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and Garry Winogrand, responded to the increased prominence of television in daily life during the early 1960s. Working in modes and styles as varied as collage and assemblage, Pop Art, Color Field Painting, Fluxus, Performance Art, and documentary photography, these artists engaged with the perceptual, technological, and social changes catalyzed in part by the emergence of television as the dominant mass medium.

The New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960-65

Arts & Photography

Farmer, John Alan

Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

This book documents a series of community-based projects by Marina Abramovi? Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ann Hamilton, Dinh Q. L', Shirin Neshat, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Allan Sekula, Shahzia Sikander and Rirkrit Tiravanija among others, realized in Luang Prabang, Laos, from 2004 to 2008.

The Quiet in the Land: Luang Prabang, Laos

Becker, Carol

Mixay, Somsanouk

Morin, France

Engelmann, Francis

Choron-Baix, Catherine

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

The Quiet in the Land, Inc.

<p>Moca. Bumps on two corners are all that mar this book. Pages and illustrations are beautiful, unmarked and book is tightly bound. All proceeds benefit the Oro Valley Public Library.</p>

Sigmar Polke: Photoworks : When Pictures Vanish

SCHIMMEL, PAUL

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Corcoran Gallery of Art

HAMBOURG, Maria Morris

Polke, Sigmar

Site Santa Fe (Gallery)

Henger, Sue

Photography & Video

Distributed Art Pub Inc

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