Accession Number1976/2.123
TitleA New Design for TV Chair
Artist(s)Nam June PaikArtist NationalitySouth KoreanObject Creation Date1973Medium & Supportscreenprint on paperDimensions 12 in x 9 in (30.5 cm x 22.9 cm);22 1/8 in x 18 1/8 in (56.2 cm x 46 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. Robert RauschenbergSubject matterThis work was included in a portfolio created by 30 artists as part of a fundraising effort for the project Experiments in Art and Technology. Here, Paik's print appropriates a 1940s advertisement for the future of television watching. The text of the advertisement presupposes the ubiquity of the TV by the 1970s. In this work, Paik references his own practice of creating wall-to-wall video art.
Physical DescriptionThis vertical print shows a slick advertising image in the top half with a man and a woman watching an early model television set. The woman is smoking a cigarette. A text box is inserted asking three questions. The bottom half is less slick, simply a diagram and text, some of it in a typewriter font. Text above and below asks about how soon television sets will be widely available in homes and museums. The date 1944 is included in parentheses at the top of the image.
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Keywords
The New York Collection for Stockholm
advertisements
mass media
modern and contemporary art
portfolios (groups of works)
television (telecommunication system)