Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists’ Responses to Television

Cover\nContents\nIntroduction\n	Prolegomena to the Study of the Relationships Between Art and TV\n	The Body Split to Travel in Space\n	Art Reflecting Tele-Vision\n	Artists as Prosumers\n	Synopsis by Chapter\n	TV in the Postmedia Scenario\n1 Historical and Theoretical Frameworks\n	1.1 1920s–1950s\n		The 1920s: The Age of Radio-Television\n		The 1930s–1940s: Utopia or Dystopia?\n		The 1950s: Reality and Its Duplicate\n		The 1950s: Television and Spatialism\n	1.2 1960s–1970s\n		The 1960s: Television as an Extension of Man\n		The 1960s: Situationism and the Society of the Spectacle\n		The 1960s: Early Application of Semiotics to TV\n		The 1960s–1970s: The Birth of Video Art\n	1.3 1970s–1980s\n		The 1970s: The Flow\n		The 1980s: Hyperreality\n		The 1980s: Neo-Television\n		The 1980s: Pastiche and Schizophrenia\n	1.4 1990s–2010s\n		The 1980s–1990s: A Sociological Viewpoint\n		The 1990s: The Body Split\n		The 1990s–2000s: Television and Post-Fordism\n		The 2010s: From Convergence to Circulationism\n2 TV as a Mirror: Manipulations and Re-Presentations\n	2.1 Artists Familiarize with the New Mass Medium\n		Early Acts of Manumission of the TV Set\n		The Rise of Artists Television: Germany\n		The Rise of Artists Television: United States\n		Nam June Paik’s Video-Synthesizer and TV Programs\n	2.2 Performance, CCTV, and the Narcissistic Impulse\n		The First Exhibition of Television Art\n		Performing CCTV\n		Video as a Definition of the Self\n		The Audience Is the Product: Richard Serra\n	2.3 The TV Set and Its Double\n		TV as a Living Organism\n		Interruptions: The TV Set Literalized\n		Commercials and Zapping\n		Two Cases of Metatelevision\n	2.4 Tele-Pictures\n		The Allegorical Impulse of the Pictures Generation\n		Feminist Approaches to Media Fantasies\n		The Video as a Poststructuralist Visual Essay\n		Function Is to Perform Fiction\n3 Breaking News: Television Between Art and Activism\n	3.1 Guerrilla Television\n		The Rise of the Guerrilla Television Movement\n		The Theories Behind Guerrilla Television\n		Guerrilla Television and the 1960s Counterculture\n		The Professionalization of Guerrilla Television\n	3.2 Community Television\n		Community Television: Videofreex’s Lanesville TV\n		The Legacy of Guerrilla Television: PTTV\n		The Personal Is Political: AIDS TV\n		Grassroots Television\n	3.3 Mediated War\n		John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Bed-In for Peace”\n		War and Remoteness\n		From the Gulf War to the War on Terror\n		The Electronic War\n	3.4 Break the News\n		The First Global TV News Event: The JFK Assassination\n		The News Anchor\n		The Domestication of Fear: Johan Grimonprez\n		Live on BBC: The Yes Men\n4 Artists as Media Stars\n	4.1 The Artist as a TV Personality\n		The Surrealist Persona: Salvador Dalí\n		Television Happening: John Cage\n		A Shy Apathetic Star: Andy Warhol\n		The Artist Diva: Charlotte Moorman and Cindy Sherman\n	4.2 The Artist as Intruder\n		Violence and Disclosure: Chris Burden\n		Space Invaders\n		Art, TV, and Mysticism: Christian Jankowski\n		The Bad Girl: Tracey Emin\n	4.3 Representations of Art and Artists in TV\n		The Loss of the Aura: TV Shows About Art\n		Stereotypes Exposed: From General Idea to the Internet\n		Downtown Television\n		The East Village Heterotopia: Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party\n	4.4 Andy Warhol’s TV Programs\n		The “Superstar” as a Dysfunctional Replica\n		From Pop to Fashion (1979–80)\n		Andy Warhol’s T.V. (1980–83)\n		Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes (1986–87)\n5 Disentertainment: Music, Kids, Fun, and Soap Operas\n	5.1 The Art of the Music Video\n		Birth and Evolution of the Music Video\n		Music Videos Directed by Visual Artists\n		Artistic Parodies and Appropriations of the Music Video\n		Music Videos by Visual Artists/Musicians\n	5.2 Kids Shows and the Aesthetic of Failure\n		The Abused Child: Mike Kelley\n		Dysfunctional Kids\n		The Troubled Girl: Alex Bag\n		Surreal Children’s Shows and Cartoons\n	5.3 Comic Personae\n		Absurdist Humor: Ernie Kovacs\n		Satire and Argentinean Conceptualism\n		Fun TV: New Wave Vaudeville at Club 57\n		The Inadequate Spectator: Michael Smith\n	5.4 The Semiotics of the Soap Opera\n		Infiltrating the Soap Opera\n		The Double on the Screen\n		A Postcolonial View: Bruce and Norman Yonemoto\n		Identity and the Telenovela: Phil Collins\n6 The Age of Prosumers: Reality TV and the Internet\n	6.1 Processing Reality TV\n		Early Artistic Responses to Reality TV\n		Emotions for Sale: Artists’ Reality Shows\n		Italian Love Meetings: From Pasolini to Vezzoli\n		Reality TV and the Collective Unconscious: Gillian Wearing\n	6.2 Performing Selves\n		Imitation of Life: The Truman Effect\n		Video Performance as Identity Research Practice\n		The Schizophrenic Prosumer: Ryan Trecartin\n		Identity Politics and the Melodrama: Kalup Linzy\n	6.3 Art After Reality TV\n		TV and Participatory Art\n		Talent Shows for Artists\n		Live from the Art World\n		Video Art and Edutainment\n	6.4 Remediation, Rematerialization, Abstraction\n		Artists’ TV Series, Sharing Economy, and Biopower\n		TV, Accelerationism, and EDM\n		The TV Stage Abandoned\n		Television and Abstraction\nChronology of Exhibitions on Art and Television\nBibliography\nWorks Cited\nList of Figures\nAcknowledgments\nIndex