Product Description: Television emerged as the dominant mass medium in the United States during the era that President John F. Kennedy termed the New Frontier. Although television would soon be decried as 'a vast wasteland', during this era artists began to engage with the medium in a sustained manner for the first time - and not just as an object to be pictured, but as a system that demanded a re-negotiation of the relationship between the realms of art and life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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