soon to be reading

"Borrowing from French new wave cinema as much as abstract expressionism and pop art, television in Spigel's riveting account embraced modernism and participated in the taste wars of the 1950s and 1960s. In turn, art museums such as MoMA partnered with broadcast television and artists found employment at the networks; certainly this is the best account of Warhol's engagement with commercial television. By highlighting the dynamic and fluid relations between network television and modernism in painting, graphic design, and architecture, TV by Design challenges binaries between high and low, mainstream television and oppositional artistic practice."--Cecile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (Cecile Whiting)

thanks peter!