"The spatial forms of TV sets were already used by Fluxus artists such as Wolf Vostell before the birth of video art. In his first TV De-coll/age, created in 1958, Vostell placed six television monitors in a wooden box behind a white canvas, which was slashed open with a knife. Tellingly, he declared the TV set to be "the sculpture of the twentieth century."... Rush concludes that both Vostell and Paik recontextualized the monitor, thus inaugurating a new way of viewing this small screen divorced from the familiar, commercial locus of the home..."
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Helen Westgeest. Video Art Theory: A Comparative Approach. p. 87
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Wolf Vostell
1932 – 1998
deutscher Maler, Bildhauer, Happening- und FluxuskĂĽnstler
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