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Creator:
Bauer, Richard, 1944-  Search this
Names:
Ankrum Gallery  Search this
Gregory Ghent Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (videocassette (120 min), sd., col., 1/2 in.)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Video recordings
Date:
[1984]
Scope and Contents:
A video composed of five segments on Bauer and his body cast sculptures and shows. The segments are titled on the cassette label: Exhibition tape; "Body Casts" Solo @ Gregory Ghent; 1st Photo Session, Model- Albert; Making of Mold for CRUCIFORM V; and Making of Mold for CRUCIFORM IV. Also included is a duplicate video cassette "The Cave of Making". "Exhibition tape" is footage from the television program "Eye on Hollywood," and is filmed at the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles during Bauer's exhibition [1984], and shows a body cast on the program's host. "'Body Casts', Solo" is of Bauer's one man show at the Gregory Ghent Gallery in San Francisco [1984]. The remainder are of Bauer preparing and working on molds in his studio, ca. 1984.
Biographical / Historical:
Sculptor; San Francisco, California.
Provenance:
Donated 1985 and 1987 by Richard Bauer.
Topic:
Human figure in art  Search this
Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century  Search this
Plaster sculpture  Search this
Genre/Form:
Video recordings
Identifier:
AAA.bauerich
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw90c62f846-9a5e-4a78-b716-3fc4c41ceb7e
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-bauerich