Wolf Vostell
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| Born |
October 14, 1932 Leverkusen, Prussia, German Reich (now Germany) |
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| Died |
April 3, 1998 (aged 65) Berlin, Germany |
| Collections | Walker 37, Macba 26, Mumok 22, MoMA 19, Reina Sofia 10, Pompidou 8, NRW 7, Stedelijk 6, ZKM 5, NGA Canberra 5, Ludwig 4, Whitney 1, Artic 1 |
Wolf Vostell (1932–1998) was a German painter and sculptor, an early video and installation artist, and pioneer of Happening and Fluxus.
Releases[edit]
- Dé-coll/age Musik, 1972; Soave, 2017. Audio recording.
- Il giardino delle delizie, Multhipla Records, 1984. A musical Fluxus performance by Wolf Vostell, sopranos Esperanza Abad, Nancy Bellow, Marie-Louise Gilles, Helga Hamm-Albrecht, Else Nabu, cante jondo singer Paco Corales, and the Capella St. Martini, Bremen-Lesum under the direction of Günter Koller. [1]
Publications[edit]
- editor, Dé-Coll/age: Bulletin aktueller Ideen, 7 numbers, Frankfurt: Typos, 1962-69. [2] [3] (German)
- Berlin and Phenomena, trans. Laura P. Williams, Great Bear Pamphlets, New York: Something Else Press, 1966, 16 pp; UbuClassics, 2004, PDF.
- Miss Vietnam, San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1969, 37 pp.
- editor, with Dick Higgins, Fantastic Architecture, New York: Something Else Press, 1971.
Literature[edit]
- John G. Hanhardt, "Dé-collage/Collage: Notes Toward a Reexamination of the Origins of Video Art", in Illuminating Video: An Essential Guide to Video Art, eds. Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer, New York: Aperture Press, 1991, pp 70-79. [4]
- John G. Hanhardt, "Dé-collage and Television: Wolf Vostell in New York, 1963-1964", Visible Language 26:1-2, Winter/Spring 1992, pp 109-123.
- Adrian Anagnost, "Wolf Vostell's Concrete Traffic (1970)", 2012. Paper presented at the Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago, 2012.
- Helga Behn, "Wolf Vostell:'Utopische Betonierungen', 14. März bis 15. April 1970, Domstrasse 81/Wolf Vostell:'Utopische Betonierungen', March 14 to April 15, 1970", Sediment–Materialien und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Kunstmarkts 31, 2020, pp 226-235. (German)
- Caroline Lillian Schopp, "Concrete Violence–Wolf Vostell’s Disasters of War", Oxford Art Journal 44:2, 2021, pp 307-330. [5]
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