TV-Dé-coll/age, no. 1

Wolf Vostell · 1958-59

You're looking at TV-Dé-coll/age, no. 1 — an installation by the German artist Wolf Vostell, nineteen fifty-eight to nineteen fifty-nine. Six cathode-ray tube monitors, canvas, and painted plywood — about 2.5 by 3.4 meters. It is one of the largest things in this museum — about 30 times the area of a typical work here. You can pick out the interior room.

Medium Six cathode-ray tube monitors, canvas, and painted plywood · Dimensions 99 × 134 × 32" (251.5 × 340.4 × 81.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Yoko Ono

Hanging beside it in Gallery 405: Sky Machine, Fragment from Homage to New York

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Measurement Room, Empire, The Piano Lesson, The Red Studio, Equal, The Heiress