The records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) measure 64.4 linear feet and 317.43 gigabytes and date from circa 1974-2018. The bulk of the records consist of extensive video and sound recordings of events organized by the group featuring artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators and writers discussing contemporary issues in the American art world in hundreds of panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. Events began in 1975 and continue to the present; recordings in the collection date from 1977 and 2016. A smaller group of records include administrative files, panel flyers, three scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panel discussions and participants.
Scope and Contents:
The records of Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) measure 64.4 linear feet and 317.43 gigabytes and date from circa 1974-2018. The bulk of the records consist of extensive video and sound recordings of events organized by the group featuring artists, critics, historians, dealers, curators and writers discussing contemporary issues in the American art world in hundreds of panel discussions, open screenings, and dialogues held in New York City. Events began in 1975 and continue to the present; recordings in the collection date from 1977 and 2016. A smaller group of records include administrative files, panel flyers, three scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panel discussions and participants.
ATOA's recordings chronicle the American art world, covering critical discussions and significant art world issues over five decades. Thousands of artists such as Will Barnet, Louise Bourgeois, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Robert De Niro, Agnes Denes, Michael Goldberg, Robert Longo, Ana Mendieta, Robert Morris, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Philip Pavia, Howardena Pindell, Larry Rivers, Sylvia Sleigh, Kahinde Wiley, Hannah Wilke, David Wojnarowicz, and others speak about their work. The original recordings exist in a variety of formats, including U-Matic and VHS videotape, MiniDVs, sound cassettes and sound tape reels. ATOA digitized most of the video and sound recordings prior to donating the collection.
The collection also includes printed histories, board and program committee meeting minutes, financial statements, general correspondence files of the president and chair, attendance statistics, grant files, panel participant release forms, sixteen panel transcripts, a complete set of panel flyers (many are annotated) and other printed materials, three dismantled scrapbooks, as well as photographs, slides, and negatives of panels and panel participants.
Arrangement:
The records are arranged into nine series.
Series 1: Adminstrative Files, 1974-2013 (0.4 linear feet, Box 1)
Series 2: Director's and Chairman's Correspondence, 1977-2006 (0.4 linear feet, Box 1)
Series 3: Grant Files, 1977-2009 (1 linear foot, Boxes 1-2)
Series 4: Panel Release Forms, 1978-2012 (1 linear foot, Boxes 2-3)
Series 6: Printed Materials, 1975-2015 (0.8 linear feet, Boxes 3-4; 0.434 GB, ER02)
Series 7: Scrapbooks, 1975-1989 (0.2 linear feet, Box 4)
Series 8: Photographic Materials, circa 1975-circa 2000 (1 linear foot, Boxes 4-5)
Series 9: Video and Sound Recordings of Events, 1977-2016 (59 linear feet, Boxes 6-65; 317.43 GB, ER03-ER04)
Biographical / Historical:
Established in 1974 and still active in New York, Artists Talk on Art is the art world's longest running and most prolific aesthetic panel discussion series organized by artists for artists. Founded by Lori Antonacci, Douglas I. Sheer, and Robert Wiegand, the forum has presented 6,000 artists in nearly 1,000 documented panels or dialogues. ATOA held its first panel, "Whatever Happened to Public Art," on January 10, 1975 and it drew a "crowd" of 77 people. In the decades that followed, ATOA presented dozens of panels or dialogues a year, tackling such diverse topics as "What is Happening with Conceptual Art," with Louise Lawler and Lawrence Weiner; "Painting and Photography: Defining the Difference," with Sarah Charlesworth, Jack Goldstein, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, and Robert Mapplethorpe; "Organizing Arts Activism," with Lucy Lippard; "The Artist and the Epidemic—an information panel about AIDS"; "Cross-generational Views of Feminism"; and hundreds more.
Provenance:
The Artists Talk on Art (ATOA) records, including digital files of the video and sound recordings, were donated to the Archives in 2016 by Douglas Sheer, Chairman of ATOA.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
This bulk of this collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
National Academy of Design records, 1817-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
The Jerome R. Mintz Papers document his career as an educator and ethnographic filmmaker. Mintz's papers relate to his research in Andalusia, Spain, among the Hopi, and on Hasidism. The collection includes audio tapes, correspondence, notes, photographs, publications, and transcriptions. Mitnz's papers also feature course materials from the Jewish studies and anthropology classes he taught at Indiana University.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of the professional papers of Jerome Mintz, documenting his work as an anthropologist, filmmaker, and professor. The collection contains his correspondence, research files, writings, photographs, sound recordings, grant applications, teaching files, and floppy disks.
A significant portion of the collection pertains to his work in Spain, particularly his research on the anarchist uprising in Casas Viejas. There are also materials related to his ethnographic films and his collection of song lyrics from carnivals held in Cadiz Province. His research on Hasidic tales and social change is also represented in this collection as well as interviews from his Hopi fieldwork.
His course files as a professor at Indiana University also form a sizable portion of the collection. He taught a wide range of courses within the folklore, Jewish studies, and anthropology department.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Jerome R. Mintz was born on March 29, 1930 in Brooklyn, New York. He received an A.B. (1952) in Comparative Literature and an M.A. (1955) in English literature from Brooklyn College. In 1961, he earned his Ph.D. in Folklore at Indiana University.
As a doctoral student in 1959, he began studying New York's Hasidic community. He interviewed members of different Hasidic courts and collected and analyzed Hasidic tales. This research formed the basis of his dissertation, which was expanded and published as The Legends of the Hasidim: an Introduction to Hasidic Culture and Oral Tradition in the New World (1968). He also published Hasidic People: A Place in the New World (1992), which is based on his study of social change within the Hasidic community. He received critical acclaim for the book and was honored with the National Jewish Book Award.
Mintz also received international recognition for his work in Andalusia, Spain. In 1965 he began studying Spanish anarchism, focusing on the events surrounding the 1933 uprising in the small rural town of Casas Viejas that resulted in the massacre of innocent villagers. Despite working in Casas Viejas, now Benalup-Casas Viejas, during the reign of Francisco Franco, Mintz was able to gain the trust and friendship of his informants, which included survivors of the failed anarchist uprising. Although much had been written about the event, his book The Anarchists of Casas Viejas (1982) is considered the most comprehensive account and the first to incorporate the perspectives of the campesinos involved. He also published Carnival Song and Society: Gossip, Sexuality, and Creativity in Andalusia (1997) and produced six ethnographic films on tradition and change in rural Andalusia. His films The Shoemaker and Pepe's Family (1980) received first place awards in the Modern Language Association Film Festival, and RomerÃa: Day of the Virgin (1986) was honored by the Society for Visual Anthropology. In 2013, the city council of Benalup-Casas Viejas chose to posthumously honor Mintz for his contributions by renaming the city's cultural center after him.
In addition to his research on the New York Hasidim and Andalusian campesinos, Mintz studied the oral traditions and history of the Hopi in Arizona. In 1962, in between his field work among the Hasidim, Mintz spent the summer on the Hopi reservation recording interviews with Hopi informants. He planned to analyze the ethnographic data, tales, and histories that he collected but ultimately did not publish on the subject.
Mintz spent most of his academic career at Indiana University. He began teaching at the university in 1962 and joined the anthropology faculty in 1966. He retired in 1995.
After a long battle with leukemia, Mintz passed away on November 22, 1997.
Sources Consulted
Bahloul, Joëlle. 1998. Jerome R. Mintz. Anthropology Newsletter, February.
Carnival NEH Grant, Series 4. Grants, Jerome R. Mintz Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
La casa de cultura de Benalup llevará el nombre de Jerome Mintz. Diario de Cadiz, February 2, 2013. http://www.diariodecadiz.es/article/ocio/1450991/la/casa/cultura/
benalup/llevara/nombre/jerome/mintz.html (accessed February 7, 2013).
Grants (APS and IU), Series 4. Grants, Jerome R. Mintz Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1930 -- Born March 29 in Brooklyn, New York
1952 -- Earns A.B. from Brooklyn College
1955 -- Earns M.A. from Brooklyn College
1959-61 -- Conducts fieldwork in Hasidic community in New York
1961 -- Earns Ph.D. from Indiana University
1961-62 -- Instructor, Ohio State University
1995 -- Retired from Indiana University
1997 -- Died on November 22
1963 -- Conducts fieldwork in Hasidic community in New York
1964 -- Conducts fieldwork in Hasidic community in New York
1965-1966 -- Conducts fieldwork in Andalusia, Spain
1969-1971 -- Conducts fieldwork in Andalusia, Spain
1972-1978 -- Professor of Folklore and Anthropology, Indiana University
1973 -- Conducts summer fieldwork in Andalusia, Spain
1978 -- Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
1980 -- His films The Shoemaker and Pepe's Family are awarded first place prizes at MLA Film Festival
1993 -- Received the National Jewish Book Award for Hasidic People: A Place in the New World
1962 -- Began teaching at Indiana University as an assistant professor Conducts fieldwork among Hopi on reservation in Northern Arizona
Related Materials:
Copies of Mintz's Spanish films and associated photos and sound recordings are at the Human Studies Film Archives. His original Spanish and Hopi sound recordings are at the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Provenance:
This collection was donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Betty Mintz, wife of Jerome Mintz, in 2002.
Restrictions:
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This subseries contains Mintz's research on anarchism and the events surrounding the 1933 uprising in Casas Viejas, now Benalup-Casas Viejas. Materials include his field notes, transcripts of recorded interviews with campesinos, English translations of the interviews, his archival and bibliographic research, partial drafts of The Anarchists of Casas Viejas, and Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) ephemera. Cross-references to the sound recordings (held at the Human Studies Film Archives) are noted on some of the transcripts.
Collection Restrictions:
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The Jerome R. Mintz papers are open for research. As part of his research on the Hasidim in New York, Jerome Mintz presented TAT drawings to children and adults. Their responses are restricted. Also restricted are materials containing social security numbers of living individuals and his students' grades. His floppy disks are restricted due to preservation reasons.
Access to the Jerome R. Mintz papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use. Permission to use his Spanish and Hopi sound recordings must be obtained from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Collection Citation:
Jerome R. Mintz papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
