Essays by Fred Barzyk, Curtis L. Carter, George Fifield, Mary Ide, Charles Johnson, Barbara London, Brian O’Doherty and Nam June Paik. 

This full-color exhibition catalogue celebrates the pioneering role played by Fred Barzyk as a broadcast television producer and director. While at WGBH, Boston  from 1959 and as President of Creative Television Associates, Barzyk sought to introduce new approaches to television programming by encouraging experimentation. For Barzyk, the exhibition catalogue of The Search for A Personal Vision in Broadcast Television showcases the dramatic changes in television through artists'  involvement with broadcast television and the development of video art. Essays by scholars, artists, and curators document the role of television as a medium of unparalleled influence, which was transformed by artists like Nam June Paik and Peter Campus. The catalogue charts broadcast firsts,  artistic collaborations fostered by the WGBH New Television Workshop,  the emergence of video as a new art medium and the challenge of television archiving. 

The catalogue includes art by Nam June Paik, William Wegman, Peter Campus, Bill Viola, Tony Oursler and Patrick Ireland along with video stills of dance choreographed by Trisha Brown, Rudy Perez, Dan Wagoner, Louis Falco and Mimi Seawright. A list of the works in the exhibition, a biography of Fred Barzyk and a select bibliography of television and video publications are included in the catalogue.

100 pages

ISBN: 0-945366-13-2
Cost: $30.00