Book Review: <i>Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists’ Responses to Television</i> (Bloomsbury Publishing, New York-London-Dublin, 2022, pp. 352), by Francesco Spampinato

In “Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists’ Responses to Television,” Francesco Spampinato examines how contemporary artists from the 1950s to the 2010s challenged the unidirectional communication of television by creating works that critique its hegemonic structures. The book explores various artists, highlighting the political dimension of their works and allows the reader to view them within the contextualised history of conflict between artistic innovation and mass communication, in this case specifically with television.