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Allan Bridge (February 14, 1945 - August 5, 1995) was an American conceptual artist best known for his creation in 1980 of the confessional phone system known as the Apology Line. He went by the pseudonym Mr. Apology (a label which has since been adopted by an advice columnist) and used new technology of the time, an answering machine, to record confessions from anonymous callers. ==Life and career== Born in Falls Church, Virginia, Bridge attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts. Returning to the Washington, D. C. area, he became one of the second generation of artists of the Washington Color School movement. For a series of large-scale paintings, he used poured paint techniques and then moved on to geometric abstraction. He was championed and collected by Gene Baro, at one time the director of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Bridge exhibited at the Corcoran and many other galleries in the 1970s. He created at least 79 paintings in the years spanning 1970 to 1977. Bridge married Elinor Schiele in 1977, and they divorced in 1981. Eventually, Bridge tired of the visual image and began making interactive machines with moral implications. The most famous best known of these is ''Crime Time'', where the viewer spins a wheel of chance and either gets away with a "crime" by receiving a marble from the machine, or he gets "caught" and his hand is held in a lock for 30 seconds. From ''Crime Time'', the next jump for his restless mind was the Apology Line, created after he moved to Manhattan in 1977.〔(Apology Line: Allan Bridge )〕 Bridge sold rights for a film and novel. ''Mr. Apology'' by Campbell Black was published by Ballantine Books in 1984, and this was adapted by screenwriter Mark Medoff for the HBO thriller, ''Apology'' (1986). The film switched the sex of the conceptual artist from male to female (portrayed by Lesley Ann Warren). In 1993, Bridge was the subject of a long article, "The Confession," by Alec Wilkinson, published in the October 4, 1993 issue of ''The New Yorker''.〔Wilkinson, Alec. "The Confession," ''The New Yorker'', October 4, 1993.〕 Wilkinson's article was reprinted a decade later in ''Mr. Apology and Other Essays'' (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).〔Wilkinson, Alec. ''Mr. Apology and Other Essays''. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Allan Bridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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