American Decades
"The Art World & I Go On Line"
Magazine article
By: Robert Atkins
Date: December 1995
Source: Atkins, Robert. "The Art World & I Go On Line." Art in America 83, no. 12, December 1995, 58–59, 63.
About the Author: Robert Atkins is the author of ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords (1848–1944) and ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords 1945 to the Present. He is an art historian, curator, writer, and editor. Atkins created the first online journal about online art, TalkBack! A Forum for Critical Inquiry, in 1995. He has also written widely about AIDS.
Introduction
The increasing use and availability of the Internet and the World Wide Web changed the way people communicated and accessed information. In the early 1990s, browsers and websites that would seem primitive even a few years later began to proliferate. The Web...
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1990's Media Primary Sources
- Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
- "The Art World & I Go On Line"
- "Hypocrisy Rules the Airwaves"
- "The Next Big Thing: A Bookstore?"
- Walt Handelsman Editorial Cartoons
- "What Level of Protection for Internet Speech?"
- "Roll Over, Ward Cleaver"
- "Comparing Net Directories"
- "Assignment: The Cable News Battle"
- "Who Won the Mosaic War?"
- "Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld"
- "Ken Burns Makes History Happen Now"
- "Is Fox News Fair?"
- "It's a Wonderful Life"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
