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- Title
- Bob Hope
- Year
- 2002
- Material
- CRT TV 모니터 2대, LCD TV 모니터 3대, 진공관 TV 케이스 3대, 진공관 라디오 케이스 3대, 비디오 분배기 1대, 1-채널 비디오, 컬러, 무성, DVD
2 CRT TV sets, 3 LCD TV sets, 3 vacuum-tube TV cases, 3 vacuum-tube radio cases, 1 video distributor, 1-channel video, color, silent, DVD
- Description
- Bob Hope was a popular comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and author, who made appearances in diverse fields including radio, television programs, movies, and theaters. Nam June Paik made a series of works featuring such celebrities as Humphrey Bogart, David Bowie, Lauran Bacall, and Marilyn Monroe as well as Hope. This is derived from Paik’s consistent interest from the 1970s in the power of mass media, the media consumption of images, and the boundary between high art and popular art. In 1984, a broadcast program produced by the artists’ collective ‘Cable Soho’ in New York showed artist Jaime Davidovich sneaking into a press conference and asking Hope about video art and Paik. Although Hope did not know about these at that time, he expressed positive views on television of the future that was to be developed by experimental artists and wished to become part of it. As if to respond to this, Paik’s Bob Hope transforms Hope, the embodiment of the American television culture, into a robot that expresses the past and the future of Hope at once.
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