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Interviewee:

Homem, Antonio  Search this

Interviewer:

McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-  Search this

Names:

Centre Georges Pompidou  Search this

Ileana Sonnabend (Gallery)  Search this

Acconci, Vito, 1940-  Search this

Baldessari, John, 1931-  Search this

Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968  Search this

Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-  Search this

Guy, Michel  Search this

Ludwig, Peter, 1925-  Search this

Nauman, Bruce, 1941-  Search this

Panza, Giuseppe  Search this

Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008  Search this

Sharp, Willoughby, 1936-2008  Search this

Sonnabend, Ileana  Search this

Sonnabend, Michael  Search this

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987  Search this

Extent:

4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (4 hr.,10 min.), digital, wav)

80 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Paris (France) -- description and travel

Spain -- description and travel

Zurich (Switzerland)

Date:

2016 March 14-23

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Antonio Homem, conducted 2016 March 14 and 23, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York.

Homem speaks of his early memories of art and his childhood in Portugal; going to museums in Paris and Spain; studying engineering at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland; working in a gallery in Zurich; reading Proust; discussion of reading, understanding, and misunderstanding art and literature; meeting Ileana and Michael Sonnabend in 1965; subsequently working at the Sonnabend gallery from 1968; job responsibilities; opening galleries in New York in 1970 and 1971; Showing new artists, like Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari; Willoughby Sharpe, Shunk and Kender and the Pier 18 Project; the differences between collectors and gallery visitors of New York and Paris; the influence of the creation of the Centre Pompidou; his thoughts on the evolution of artistic taste; Duchamp; Pop art; Arte Povera; and evolution of art market from the 1970s to the present. Homem also recalls Ileana Sonnabend in detail, Robert Rauschenburg, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Guy, Marcel and Giselle Boulois, Dr. Peter Ludwig, Count Panza, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Antonio Homem is the director and owner of the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator of New York, New York.

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.

Occupation:

Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Topic:

Conceptual art  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.homem16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9516c5408-3ee4-4aff-ad16-9e6bd57953f3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-homem16

Author:

Williams, James S. 1963-  Search this

Temple, Michael 1963-  Search this

Witt, Michael  Search this

Subject:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930- Criticism and interpretation  Search this

Physical description:

461 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

2004

C2004

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_822545

Author:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930-  Search this

Sterritt, David  Search this

Subject:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930-  Search this

Physical description:

xxxiii, 203 p. : ill ; 24 cm

Type:

Interviews

Place:

France

Date:

1998

C1998

Topic:

Motion picture producers and directors  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_834065

Author:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930-  Search this

Physical description:

x, 292 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Type:

Books

Date:

1986

[1986] c1972

Topic:

Motion pictures  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_836990

Artist:

Baltz, Lewis 1945-2014  Search this

Contributor:

Campany, David  Search this

Païni, Dominique  Search this

Translator:

Mothe, Philippe  Search this

Tittensor, John 1941-  Search this

Host institution:

Bal (Art organization : Paris, France)  Search this

Subject:

Baltz, Lewis 1945-2014  Search this

Hitchcock, Alfred 1899-1980 Influence  Search this

Antonioni, Michelangelo Influence  Search this

Godard, Jean-Luc 1930- Influence  Search this

Physical description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Type:

Exhibitions

Exhibition catalogs

Date:

2014

Topic:

Photography, Artistic  Search this

Motion pictures and the arts  Search this

Motion pictures in art  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1040343

Author:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930-  Search this

O'Toole, John  Search this

Whistler, James McNeill 1834-1903 Ten o'clock  Search this

Subject:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930-  Search this

Physical description:

120 p. ; 23 cm

Type:

Interviews

Place:

France

Date:

2002

C2002

Topic:

Motion picture producers and directors  Search this

Motion pictures  Search this

Call number:

PN1998.3.G63 G63 2002

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_630521

Author:

Brenez, Nicole  Search this

Centre Georges Pompidou  Search this

Subject:

Godard, Jean Luc 1930- Criticism and interpretation  Search this

Godard, Jean Luc 1930-  Search this

Physical description:

447 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. + 1 videodisc (DVD ; 4 3/4 in.)

Type:

Video recordings

Miscellanea

Date:

2006

C2006

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_944113