Lost Lascaux Bull

Beryl Korot

1972 | 00:05:55 | United States | B&W | Mono | 4:3 | 1/2" open reel video

Collection: Early Video Art, Single Titles

Tags: Animals, History, Painting

I was drawn to the early cave paintings of Lascaux and Altamira for as long as I can remember. One day looking thru some reproductions in an art history book with portable video camera in hand I recorded a still of a Lascaux bull. Lighting a fire and borrowing a video mixer from a friend which could input two cameras, the image transmuted from book to superimposition in the fire to playback on a video tv screen with radio frequency interference. The soundtrack playing on a record player in my living room was from an early 1970s French archival recording of Melanesian drumming and vocals.

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Premiere

Kennedy Center
Washington, DC
1974

Exhibitions + Festivals

Videotapes. Early Video Art (1965–1976), Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2020