Dialogue and Discourse: Horace Newcomb and Lynn Spigel

In the 1950s and ’60s, American television was a virtual gallery for new movements in the artsfrom abstract expressionism to jazz to pop art. Horace Newcomb and Lynn Spigel discuss early television’s role in popularizing modernism, and consider how TV continues to influence American tastes and ways of seeing the world. Held in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television.

Horace Newcomb is the former Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody Awards, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. Lynn Spigel serves as Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, School of Communications, Northwestern University, and is the author of TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network TV.











When: Thu., May. 28, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave.
212-423-3200
Price: Free with Pay-What-You-Wish Admission; RSVP recommended
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In the 1950s and ’60s, American television was a virtual gallery for new movements in the artsfrom abstract expressionism to jazz to pop art. Horace Newcomb and Lynn Spigel discuss early television’s role in popularizing modernism, and consider how TV continues to influence American tastes and ways of seeing the world. Held in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television.

Horace Newcomb is the former Lambdin Kay Chair for the Peabody Awards, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. Lynn Spigel serves as Frances E. Willard Professor of Screen Cultures, School of Communications, Northwestern University, and is the author of TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network TV.

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