TV Museum
Contemporary Art and the Age of Television
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television
1. Sets, Screens and Social Spaces: Exhibiting Television
2. Quality Television and Contemporary Art: Soaps, Sitcoms and Symbolic Value
3. Reality TV, Delegated Performance and the Social Turn
4. European Television Archives, Collective Memories and Contemporary Art
5. Monuments to Broadcasting: Television and Art in the Public Domain
6. Talk Shows: Art Institutions and the Discourse of Publicness
7. Production on Display: Television, Labour and Contemporary Art
Conclusion: Contemporary Art After Television
Notes
References
Index
“Connolly undertakes a compelling and exhaustive study of the ways in which contemporary artists are reimagining TV now that it has lost its central position in the arena of mainstream entertainment culture and its products have been remediated across diverse platforms, on and offline. She makes a compelling case for the repurposing or cross-purposing of professional television studios and galleries. . . . Connolly gives us hope that the ‘televisual turn’ and the artists she has championed so convincingly in this book, will help to bring what is now a quotidian cultural form back into critical focus.”
“By linking television and the museum [Connolly] charts a history of contemporary art’s increasingly enamored incorporations of television, revealing the laziness of a hastily applied high/low cultural dichotomy. Harnessing the comparative brevity of this relationship . . . ‘televisual distance,’ or an outsider’s perspective, provides a tool to examine the museum’s operations from a new and revelatory perspective. . . . Presenting a dynamic portrait of the formal and institutional intersections between television and the museum, TV Museum serves as a call for sharper and deeper considerations of this knotty relationship and a nascent warning about the impact of depoliticizing the public sphere.”
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