Lines of Resolution: Drawing at the Advent of Television and Video explores the relationship between drawing, television, and video in the art of the late 1950s to the 1980s. The book foregrounds the relationship between drawing and art made for the “small screen”—the domestic television set and early portable video cameras. During the period known as the “network era,” television reached its apex as a cultural force in the home, including seeding acts of political dissent and artistic experimentation. Televisual imagery permeated works on paper by Robert Rauschenberg and were an important subject for Walter De Maria; artists such as Anna Bella Geiger and Dennis Oppenheim used video to record the act of drawing; others, including Nam June Paik and Howardena Pindell, treated the screen as a site of inscription.
The catalogue features more than 25 artists from 11 countries and texts that highlight the surprising relationships between drawing and the small screen. Lines of Resolution also includes artist biographies and close-up details that display both the textures of televisual technologies on screen and the drawn line on paper.
About the Authors: Anna Lovatt is associate professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University. Kelly Montana is associate curator at the Menil Drawing Institute.
Details: 196 Pages Flexibound, 7.50 × 9.50 in. 90 color + b-w illus. 9780300284171
