Revolution Of The Eye: Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes
As avant-garde artists in the late 1960s were abandoning commercial television in favor of video art, one artist continued to engage it directly: Andy Warhol. Warhol viewed television as an extension of his creative and political practice as an award-winning designer for CBS and NBC in the early 1950s, as a performer on network television programs and commercials, and as a cable-television producer.
Warhol's embrace of popular culture was motivated not just by fascination and grudging respect, but also by an imperative to question its limitations and push it to its limits. Television's enormous cultural reach provided Warhol with the most direct path to influence and fame—his own fifteen minutes—the period in the spotlight to which each person, he believed, was entitled.
See TV appearances by Andy Warhol and others at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale through January 10, 2016 in the exhibition Revolution of the Eye: Modern art and the Birth of American Television.
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.