Editor: Dorine Mignot
Publisher: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Publication: 1987, First Edition
Binding: Softcover, perfect-bound
Pages: 100
Size: 200 x 240
Text: English
ISBN: 3926117060
(Preface) 'As well as its task of conserving, restoring and putting art into historical perspective, the museum is first and foremost an informative, acquisitive, provocative and seductive medium: a mass medium, as the former director of the distinguished Rijksmuseum, Mathieu van Schendel, ventured to say in the sixties and seventies. That is just one reason for the museum to be interested in its colleague, television. Tension between the two media is however constant and interesting. They have good reason to scorn one another or, in stronger terms, pretend not to notice each other. To television the museum is a mini medium with ridiculously low ratings. To the museum television is a paltry reproduction device, unable to touch the awesome material reality of the visual arts on which its cameras are sometimes focussed. In a single hour television is sometimes seen by a larger audience than the concerted Dutch museums attract in a whole year. But even with its nose glued to a painting, television always enlarges, diminishes, fragmentizes art, usually busily attending to art that is static.'
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