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A New Design for TV Chair

Nam June Paik; Experiments in Art and Technology; Styria Studio

Artwork Details

A New Design for TV Chair
1973
Nam June Paik; Experiments in Art and Technology; Styria Studio
screenprint on paper
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)
Gift of Mr. Robert Rauschenberg
1976/2.123

Description

Subject Matter:

This 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 Description:

This 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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