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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»
Richter, Gerhard; Lueg, Konrad
«Leben mit Pop. Eine Demonstration für den Kapitalistischen Realismus»
The concept of this action piece concerns: «(a) displaying an entire furniture showroom without it being altered (b) within an isolated exhibition space, as the condensation of the demonstration: showing here the function of a common living room, and meaning when lived in; decorated with the respective utensils, food, drinks, books, household knickknacks, and both painters. As though sculptures, individual pieces of furniture are displayed on pedestals, with the natural spaces between them made larger in order to better realize their state of being displayed.» The «Demonstration» took place on October 11, 1963, at 8 p.m. Visitors were called inside in groups, with a corresponding number. Shown punctually on television was the beginning of the daily news, followed by the broadcast «The Adenauer Era.»
(Source: Gerhard Richter, «Text», Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig, 1992, p. 15.)
