Revolution Of The Eye: Modern Art And The Birth Of American Television
A new exhibition at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale travels back to the years from the1940s to the mid-1970s to explore how avant-garde art, with its bold experimentation and creativity, influenced the look and content of early network TV.
Highlighting the visual revolution ushered in by American television and modernist art and design of the 1950s and 1960s, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television features fine art and graphic design by such renowned artists as Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol, along with ephemera, TV memorabilia and clips from historic television programs and film, including Batman, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, and The Twilight Zone.
"Many critics speak of present-day television as kind of a new golden age in which the medium is seen to have surpassed film as a major venue for artistic experimentation and quality," says exhibition curator Maurice Berger. "Revolution of the Eye reminds us that the desire for outstanding, artistically important programming was in television's DNA from the beginning."
Revolution of the Eye is on view at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale from October 24, 2015 through January 10, 2016. Be sure to also check out the museum's calendar of events, including a Revolution of the Eye Family Day on November 8, 2015. For details, visit nsuartmuseum.org or call 954-55-5500.
Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television is organized by the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Center of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). The exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Skirball Fund for American Jewish Life Exhibitions, the Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and other generous donors.
The exhibition at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is presented by AutoNation.
Additional support provided by the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation.
