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Title

Television decollage & Morning glory : 2 pieces / by Volf Vostell.

Author

Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998.

Publication

New York : 3rd Rail Gallery, 1963.

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Additional Authors

• 3rd Rail Gallery (N.Y.)
• Smolin Gallery (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Description

[40] p. : ill.; 15 cm.

Alternative Title

Morning glory.

Subjects

• Fluxus (Group of artists)
• The arts, Modern > 20th century
• Television > United States > 20th century > Poetry
• Experimental poetry, American > 20th century > Specimens

Note

• "TV-Dé-collage / by / Volf Vostell / NYC 63 / Performed at the YAM Festival / (HAPPENINGS) / organized by the / Smolin Gallery / in / New-Brunswick N.J. / 19 May 63"--P. [1].
• "Morning Glory / by / Volf Vostell / NYC 63 / Performed ad [sic] the / 3rd. Rail Gallery New York / 25. May 63"--P. [27].
• Cover title.
• Issued in saddle-stapled, printed wrappers, with 3 b&w photographs of NYC tenement street and bridge; pair of man's hands holding open spiral notebook, pencil, and U.S. currency; row of television sets with detritus on top of them. Back wrapper printed with "Exit" sign.
• "Printed June 1963"--From final page, in gutter margin.
• Early artists' book as performance text by Wolf Vostell (name given here as Volf Vostell), printing a typographical score on near-transparent paper to produce a palimpsest effect.
• Pieces composed and performed at the Yam Festival, held in various locations in New York and New Jersey in May 1963. The event was a watershed moment for the Fluxus movement and provided a model for operating outside of the traditional gallery system. For a brief history of the Yam Festival see: Sally Banes, Greenwich Village 1963 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), p. 141.
• Fluxus began in the 1950s as an informal, international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. By the 1960s, its participants had come to the forefront of avant-garde artistic experimentation in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Fluxus had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, mixed media, and video.

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Call Number

Berg Coll Fluxus V67 1963

OCLC

20055452

Author

Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998.

Title

Television decollage & Morning glory : 2 pieces / by Volf Vostell.

Imprint

New York : 3rd Rail Gallery, 1963.

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3rd Rail Gallery (N.Y.)

Smolin Gallery (New Brunswick, N.J.)

Added Title

Morning glory.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Fluxus V67 1963