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Museum of Contemporary Art interviews

Creator:
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.)  Search this
Names:
Adrian, Dennis, 1937-  Search this
Brown, Roger, 1941-1997  Search this
Close, Chuck, 1940-  Search this
Danforth, George  Search this
Fischl, Eric, 1948-  Search this
Hafif, Marcia, 1929-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter, 1935-  Search this
Jacobi, Ritzi, 1941-  Search this
Keister, Steve, 1949-  Search this
LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007  Search this
Lohan, Dirk  Search this
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969  Search this
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956  Search this
Pozzi, Lucio, 1935-  Search this
Ryman, Robert, 1930-  Search this
Schulze, Franz, 1927-2019  Search this
Yasuda, Robert, 1940-  Search this
Extent:
8 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Interviews
Video recordings
Date:
1979-1986
Summary:
The Museum of Contemporary Art Interviews measure 8 linear feet and contain video interviews with 35 artists, curators, and an art collector, conducted by the staff of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago between 1979 and 1986, on 107 U-Matic videocassettes.
Scope and Contents:
The Museum of Contemporary Art Interviews measure 8 linear feet and contain video interviews with 35 artists, curators, and an art collector, conducted by the staff of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago between 1979 and 1986, on 107 U-Matic videocassettes.

The first set of interviews are with contemporary artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum between 1979 and 1985, including Chuck Close, Roger Brown, Eric Fischl, Peter and Ritzi Jacobi, Steve Keister, Sol Le Witt, and collector Dennis Adrian, whose Chicago art collection was exhibited in 1982. The remainder of the series contains four sets of interviews and other footage relating to exhibitions and programming, including the 1979 exhibition Wall Painting - Ryman, Hafif, Pozzi, Jackson, Yasuda; the 1981 exhibition Kick out the jams: Detroit's Cass Corridor 1963-1977; and the 1983 exhibition and educational program Eleven Chicago Artists, created with Chicago's N.A.M.E. gallery, which traveled to area high schools featuring short video documentaries about each artist that were created from the footage on the tapes in this collection. The last set includes interviews with architects Dirk Lohan and George Danforth and historian Franz Schulze, created for the 1986 program "Mies van der Rohe Remembered," celebrating the centennial of the architect's birth.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged as one series.

Missing Title

Series 1: Interviews with Artists, Collectors, and Curators (Boxes 1-8)
Biographical / Historical:
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago was founded in 1967 with Jan van der Marck as its first Director. The period from 1979 to 1986, represented in the videorecordings in this collection, was a period of physical expansion for the Museum, as well as a period when audiovisual components of artworks and exhibition design were increasingly incorporated into exhibitions and other programming. In 1979, a physical expansion of the museum begun in 1977 was unveiled with the opening of four new galleries, signaling an increased capacity for showing local and emerging contemporary artists and engaging the community.

The museum's education department began using video to create a rich record of solo and group exhibitions mounted at the museum, and created short video programs to reach out to new audiences. For their 1979 Wall Paintings exhibition, artists were interviewed while making their work in the museum, creating a visual record of the ephemeral works on display and the process of their creation. Video interviews with Detroit artists were created in preparation for a 1981 exhibition showing contemporary artists in the Cass Corridor community of that city. In 1983, Museum staff collaborated with Chicago's N.A.M.E. gallery to create the traveling exhibition Eleven Chicago Artists, which combined artwork with video documentaries showing artists at work and talking about their creative process. The exhibition traveled to city and suburban schools around Chicago. And on the centenary of the birth of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1986, interviews were conducted with Mies' grandson, Dirk Lohan, also an architect, as well as architectural historians George Danforth and Franz Schulze.
Provenance:
Donated 1986 by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Rights:
Authorization to quote or reproduce for the purposes of publication requires written permission from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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.
Topic:
Artists -- United States -- Interviews  Search this
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Interviews  Search this
Art -- Michigan -- Detroit  Search this
Genre/Form:
Interviews
Video recordings
Citation:
Museum of Contemporary Art interviews, 1979-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.musecaci
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Museum of Contemporary Art interviews
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cecb0804-229b-41cb-aa21-4c072207f769
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-musecaci

Oral history interview with Lia Cook

Interviewee:
Cook, Lia, 1942-  Search this
Interviewer:
Baizerman, Suzanne  Search this
Creator:
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this
Names:
Allrich Gallery  Search this
American Craft Council  Search this
College Art Association of America  Search this
European Textile Network  Search this
Hadler Galleries  Search this
Handarbetets vanner (Society)  Search this
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts -- Faculty  Search this
Konstfack (Stockholm, Sweden)  Search this
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this
Perimeter Gallery  Search this
University of California, Berkeley -- Students  Search this
Abakanowicz, Magdalena  Search this
Hicks, Sheila, 1934-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter, 1935-  Search this
Jacobi, Ritzi, 1941-  Search this
Laky, Gyöngy, 1944-  Search this
O'Banion, Nance  Search this
Rappaport, Deborah  Search this
Rossbach, Ed  Search this
Extent:
36 Pages (Transcript)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Sound recordings
Interviews
Place:
Europe -- description and travel
Japan -- Description and Travel
Date:
2006 August 22-29
Scope and Contents:
An interview of Lia Cook conducted 2006 August 22-29, by Suzanne Baizerman, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, in the artist's studio, in Berkeley, California.
Cook speaks of her childhood in California; studying political science at University of California, Berkeley; being strongly influenced by the textiles of Mexican cultures; studying weaving at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design and Handarbetets Vänner in Stockholm, Sweden; attending graduate school at Berkeley under Ed Rossbach; a strong interest in photography; teaching experiences at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts; participating in the Lausanne International Biennial of Tapestry in Switzerland; the impact of the digital Jacquard loom on the development of her work; travels throughout Europe and Japan; commission work; experiences with Allrich Gallery, Hadler/Rodriguez Gallery, and Perimeter Gallery; series Fabric Landscape, Material Pleasure, Point of Touch, Presence/Absence, and Anatomy of a Portrait; her involvement with American Craft Council, European Textile Network, and College Art Association; and the importance of teaching in her life. Cook also recalls Gyongy Laky, Nance O'Banion, Deborah Rappaport, Sheila Hicks, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Peter and Ritzi Jacobi, and others.
Biographical / Historical:
Lia Cook (1942- ) is a textile painter of Berkeley, California. Suzanne Baizerman (1942- ) is an independent curator of Alameda, California.
General:
Originally recorded as 4 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 11 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 23 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:
Transcript available on the Archives of American Art website.
Occupation:
Fiber artists -- California -- Berkeley  Search this
Painters -- California -- Berkeley  Search this
Topic:
Decorative arts  Search this
Art -- Study and teaching  Search this
Women artists  Search this
Women painters  Search this
Women textile artists  Search this
Genre/Form:
Sound recordings
Interviews
Identifier:
AAA.cook06
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91647bf42-c0b5-4fa9-87ad-2c6325c496b8
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-cook06
Online Media:

Peter Jacobi

Creator:
Jacobi, Peter, 1935-  Search this
Subject:
Merritt, Francis Sumner  Search this
Type:
Correspondence
Date:
1972 Oct. 13
Citation:
Peter Jacobi. Peter Jacobi, 1972 Oct. 13. Francis Sumner Merritt papers, circa 1930-1980. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Record number:
(DSI-AAA)1094
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Francis Sumner Merritt papers, circa 1930-1980
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_item_1094

Peter Jacobi : columns memorials

Author:
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej (Orońsko, Poland)  Search this
Muzeum Rzeźby Współczesnej (Orońsko, Poland))  Search this
Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg  Search this
Subject:
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Physical description:
149 p., [4] plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Date:
1999
[1999]
20th century
Topic:
Sculpture, Modern  Search this
Call number:
N7233.J32 A4 1999
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_621345

Peter Jacobi : sculptură - fotografie

Title:
Sculptură, fotografie
Author:
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Teatrul Național (Bucharest, Romania) Galeriile ARTEXPO  Search this
Subject:
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Physical description:
93 p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1993
[1983]
Call number:
N7233.J32 A4 1993
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_665604

Ritzi & Peter Jacobi : [exhibition] the Detroit Institute of Arts, January 20-March 15, 1981

Title:
Ritzi and Peter Jacobi
Author:
Jacobi, Ritzi 1941-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Detroit Institute of Arts  Search this
Moore College of Art  Search this
Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Search this
Subject:
Jacobi, Ritzi 1941-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Physical description:
45 p. : ill. ; 27 x 27 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1981
C1981
Call number:
N40.1.J167 D4
N7233.J16 A4
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_139620

Ritzi Jacobi: dessins, sculptures, tapisseries ; Peter Jacobi: photos, sculptures, tapisseries

Author:
Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris  Search this
Galerie nationale d'art textile Beauvais  Search this
Subject:
Jacobi, Ritzi 1941-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume : illustrations
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
1984
Call number:
NB588.J32 R57 1984
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_639502

Works in progress / Ritzi Jacobi. Inliegend-bedeckt-Skulpturen, Monumente ohne Absicht, Fotografien : Museum der Stadt Aschaffenburg, 21. 11. 1981-10. 1. 1982 / Peter Jacobi ; [Herausgeber und Redaktion, Ingrid Jenderko-Sichelschmidt]

Author:
Jacobi, Ritzi 1941-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Jenderko-Sichelschmidt, Ingrid 1941-  Search this
Museum der Stadt Aschaffenburg  Search this
Subject:
Jacobi, Ritzi 1941-  Search this
Jacobi, Peter 1935-  Search this
Physical description:
193 p. : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Date:
1981
C1981
Call number:
NB933.J27 A4 1981
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_656578

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