In Felt TV, Joseph Beuys transforms a television wrapped in felt into a silent object of resistance, questioning the authority and passivity of mass media. Through simple but forceful gestures, the work merges sculpture, performance, and symbolism into a critique of postwar visual culture.
Joseph Beuys, Felt TV (1966) – Düsseldorf
In Felt TV, Joseph Beuys transforms a television wrapped in felt into a silent object of resistance, questioning the authority and passivity of mass media. Through simple but forceful gestures, the work merges sculpture, performance, and symbolism into a critique of postwar visual culture.
