TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television

by Lynn Spigel

While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and '60s During that era, the rapid rise of commercial television coincided with dynamic new movements in the visual arts--a potent combination that precipitated a major shift in the way Americans experienced the world visually. TV by Design uncovers this captivating story of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226769682
• ISBN13: 9780226769684
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"