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TELEVISION: BETWEEN ART PRACTICE AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2014. Issue 7 (148). P. 130-134

The article explores the dynamics of the development of media art in the practice of avant-garde art in the second half of the twentieth century. The subject of the study is the works created via the television technology in Western Europe and America between 1950-s and 1990-s. The author's conclusions offer a fresh look on the history of art in the twentieth century and genesis of the phenomenon of New Media Art. The author analyzes the examples of the use of television devices in the context of the cultural and historical conditions that have caused the change in the society's notion of the role and place of the new media in culture and its attitude to television.

Keywords: television art, video art, media art, cinema, new media art