Dé-coll/age Happening
Primary
Wolf Vostell
(Leverkusen, Germany, 1932–Berlin, Germany, 1998)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Date1966
MediumThree-color screenprint
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/4 × 22 3/16 in. (45.1 × 56.4 cm)
Image: 15 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (38.8 × 50.2 cm)
Image: 15 1/4 × 19 3/4 in. (38.8 × 50.2 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Charles and Dorothy Clark, G1976.11.35
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object numberG1976.11.35
On View
Not on viewWolf Vostell obtains imagery directly from television and film. In this print, as in his performances, Fluxus artist Vostell removes television from its customary context and instead involves the viewer in an examination of televion as a powerful social and economic institution that shapes world veiws. The term "dé-coll/age" refers to just this: the erasure of context and meaning by the power of media in our culture.
Exhibitions
![Revelos [Reliefs]](/internal/media/dispatcher/31915/thumbnail)
![Señal T [T Sign], from the portfolio 21 estampadores de Colombia, Mexico y Venezuela [21 Printmakers of Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela]](/internal/media/dispatcher/6519/thumbnail)
