Critical Writing Index

Sophisticated N.Y. Video Artists Babes From High-Tech Toyland

by John Bentley Mays

Globe, Feb. 19, 1982

A review of TV Split, an evening of artists videotapes screened at Gallery Quan. The article references the beginning of video, 15 years ago, as an avant-garde enemy of mass broadcast television's gleaming spiffiness, its brain-numbing mayhem of swift cuts and edits, and its sexy, consumer - oriented glamour.

ITEM 1982.002 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

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