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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»
Paul Thek
«n.T.: (from the serie Television Analyzations)»
In a series of paintings entitled «Televsion Analyzation,» Thek paints using the TV image as his model. One of these works shows in close-up, for the most part, the mouth and neck of a woman wearing a string of pearls. Other paintings focus on greatly modified found images, for example a duplication of motifs resembling technical disturbances in faulty TV reception. Commenting on his work, Paul Thek writes: «I’m extremely interested in using and painting the new images of our age, most of all television and cinematic images. Isolated and reversed, these images offer me a wealth of exciting sources that I even consider a new mythology.»
(source: catalog Paul Thek, The Wonderful World That Almost Was, Berlin, 1995, p. 185.)
