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Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s»
Works by Tom Wesselmann:
Tom Wesselmann
b in 1931 in Cincinnati, Ohio (USA); studies of psychology at the University of Cincinnati and art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1955–56, and at the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture 1956–1959, initially influenced by Abstract Expressionism; started exhibiting in 1961 gradually becoming an influential representative of Pop Art. Most of his works deal with nudes and still lifes, including brash collages, assemblages and modelled on advertising catalogs.
