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Interviewee:

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993  Search this

Interviewer:

Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983  Search this

Subject:

Blatas, Arbit  Search this

Steichen, Edward  Search this

Talbot, William Henry Fox  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section  Search this

George Eastman House  Search this

Federal art project (Mass.)  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Beaumont Newhall, 1965 Jan. 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Photography  Search this

Theme:

Photography  Search this

New Deal  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)13299

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)213687

AAA_collcode_newhal65

Theme:

Photography

New Deal

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_213687

Interviewee:

Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993  Search this

Interviewer:

Trovato, Joseph S., 1912-1983  Search this

Creator:

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Names:

Federal art project (Mass.)  Search this

George Eastman House  Search this

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

United States. Farm Security Administration. Historical Section  Search this

Blatas, Arbit  Search this

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973  Search this

Talbot, William Henry Fox, 1800-1877  Search this

Extent:

23 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1965 Jan. 23

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Beaumont Newhall conducted 1965 Jan. 23, by Joseph Trovato, for the Archives of American Art. Newhall speaks of his education and first jobs in museums; his administration of the WPA Federal Art Project in Massachusetts; Berenice Abbott's photographs of New York; and the Farm Security Administration's photography project. He speaks of early photography and William Henry Fox Talbot; photography and the Armory Show; the 1937 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and Edward Steichen; and the George Eastman House. Newhall comments on museums accepting photography as art; the amateur photographer versus the artistic photographer; and his view of photography as a discoverer and a "partaker" of nature.

Biographical / Historical:

Beaumont Newhall (1908-1993) was an art administrator and art historian from Rochester, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 21 min.

Provenance:

Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Restrictions:

Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.

Occupation:

Arts administrators -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews  Search this

Art historians -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews  Search this

Topic:

Federal aid to the arts  Search this

Photography  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Identifier:

AAA.newhal65

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e41d7f7d-3b66-4cbf-b01f-ae7ed133ae1e

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-newhal65

Interviewee:

Crimp, Douglas, 1944-2019  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

Bordowitz, Gregg  Search this

Baker, Elizabeth C.  Search this

Belaygue, Christian  Search this

Cooke, Lynne  Search this

Copjec, Joan  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel  Search this

Elovich, Richard  Search this

Jonas, Joan  Search this

Kohlmeyer, Ida  Search this

Krauss, Rosalind E.  Search this

Lemann, Bernard  Search this

Leonard, Zoe  Search this

Michelson, Annette  Search this

Olander, William  Search this

Owens, Craig  Search this

Robinson, Marilynne  Search this

Santos, René  Search this

Torm, Fernando  Search this

Waldman, Diane  Search this

Warhol, Andy  Search this

Wodiczko, Krzysztof  Search this

Wolfe, Daniel  Search this

ACT UP (Organization)  Search this

Gay Activists Alliance  Search this

Rutgers University  Search this

Tulane University  Search this

University of Rochester  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Germany -- description and travel

New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Douglas Crimp, 2017 January 3-4. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

AIDS activists  Search this

AIDS (Disease) and the arts  Search this

Art -- History -- Study and teaching  Search this

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

Mardi Gras  Search this

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt  Search this

Queer theory  Search this

Activists (LGBTQ)  Search this

Queer studies  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17416

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)384973

AAA_collcode_crimp17

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_384973

Interviewee:

Crimp, Douglas, 1944-2019  Search this

Interviewer:

Burton, Johanna  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Douglas Crimp, 2009 March 8. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15791

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)288789

AAA_collcode_crimp09

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_288789

Creator:

Chiarenza, Carl  Search this

Names:

Siskind, Aaron  Search this

Extent:

2 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

1957-1981

Summary:

The interviews of artists by Carl Chiarenza measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1957 to 1981. The interviews total 93 audio cassettes and are with photographer Aaron Siskind and various artists on the subject of Aaron Siskind.

Scope and Contents:

The interviews of artists by Carl Chiarenza measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1957 to 1981. The interviews are with photographer Aaron Siskind and with artists on the subject of Aaron Siskind. The collection consists of 93 audio cassette copies of interviews from original recordings made on audio reels. There are also partial transcripts for some of the interviews.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged as one series.

Biographical / Historical:

Carl Chiarenza (1935- ) is a photographer and art historian in Rochester, New York. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957, and he received a PhD from Harvard University in 1973. Chiarenza is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History, and Artist-in-Residence, at the University of Rochester. Chiarenza has authored numerous essays on artists and the biography, Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors (1982).

Provenance:

The interviews were donated by Carl Chiarenza in 1987.

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 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.

Occupation:

Photographers -- New York (State) -- Rochester  Search this

Art historians -- New York (State) -- Rochester  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Carl Chiarenza interviews of artists, 1957-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.chiacarl

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Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw953154c46-a4c0-4d2b-843d-fe954bdc3cad

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-chiacarl

Interviewee:

Crimp, Douglas  Search this

Interviewer:

Burton, Johanna  Search this

Extent:

125 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2009 March 8

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Douglas Crimp conducted 2009 March 8, by Johanna Burton, for the Archives of American Art, at the Crimp's home, in New York, New York.

Crimp speaks of his childhood in Couer d'Alene, Idaho; his education at Tulane University in New Orleans; his early experiences in New York while working with fashion designer Charles James, Diane Waldman at the Guggenheim, and Rosalind Krauss at October Magazine; the graduate program at City University in New York; his working relationship with Agnes Martin; the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space; his role in orchestrating the AIDS issue of October in 1987 and his subsequent break from October; his current memoirs; and his teaching positions at Sarah Lawrence and University of Rochester in New York. He comments on the cultural gay scene of New York and New Orleans and its influence on his own writings and perspective; his friendships with Helene Winer, Craig Owens, and Gregg Bordowitz; his impressions of the Pictures Generation exhibition at the Met; the role visual theory had played in his career; and the ideological climate of the art history community today. He concludes by explaining his current interest in film and dance, particularly concerning the work of Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer.

Biographical / Historical:

Douglas Crimp (1944-2019) was a professor and art critic in New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded as 10 digital sound files. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 14 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

This transcript is open for research. Access to the entire recording is restricted. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Art critics -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews  Search this

Art historians -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Brown Foundation.

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.crimp09

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw96519c4a9-f8c0-485d-bdb3-5500a695740a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-crimp09