Critical Writing Index

Style Wars: What's News in the '80s

by Mary Beth Crain

L.A. Weekly, Sept. 19, 1985, p. 23

Mary Beth Crain writes about artist Robert Rosen's video work Style Wars. In this artwork, Rosen critiques the aesthetics associated with television network news broadcasts by demonstrating how exisitng broadcast techniques degrade information content in favour of high tech visualization.

ITEM 1985.043 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Style WarsRobert Rosen