On Art and Artists

The majority of the On Art and Artists collection represents almost 40 years of producing and acquiring interviews with contemporary artists, architects, theorists, and critics. The collection features interviews made by the Video Data Bank and co-founders Lyn Blumenthal & Kate Horsfield, as well as by other individual producers and producing organizations such as Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado visiting artist program. In addition, the collection includes a number of titles relating to the artists' process, including experimental documentaries and profiles.

Artists Television... John Cage: Artist... 1978 \| 28:00 John Cage’s work has had an immeasurable influence on 20th Century music and art, and his formal and technological innovations were tied to his desire to push the boundaries of the art world. In 1951 he initiated the first recording on magnetic... Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, music, performance	Artists Television... John Cage: Conversations 1978 \| 27:00 John Cage’s compositions and performances have had a profound influence on generations of musicians and artists. In this tape, he initiates For the Third Time as author Richard Kostelanetz interviews him. “I’ve left the punctuation out,... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, music, performance	Video Data Bank Cai Guo Qiang: An... 2000 \| 00:00:00 Cai Guo-Qiang is a sculptor and installation artist who was born in China and trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute. He continued his training in Tokyo, where he lived from 1986 to 1995. His conceptual and installation work... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: installation, sculpture, visual art
Video Data Bank Eddie Chambers: An... 2000 \| 00:00:00 One of the most uncompromising voices of the art establishment, Eddie Chambers is a curator and a regular contributor to Art Monthly and two European journals on contemporary art. His writings were collected in Run Through the Jungle... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview	Video Data Bank Shu Lea Cheang: An... 1998 \| 00:00:00 Shu Lea Cheang tackles conceptions of racial assimilation in American culture, examining the political underbelly of everyday situations that affect the relationship between... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview	Video Data Bank Mel Chin: An Interview 1991 \| 40:30 Mel Chin received national attention when he had to defend the artistic merits of his work Revival Field to the NEA in 1990. The work is a public sculpture aimed at cleansing toxically polluted areas of land through the introduction of... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview
Video Data Bank John Clark: An Interview 1988 \| 37:00 British painter John Clark describes his youth experiences in Northern England, finding escape in the library stacks in art books and at the milk bars where he could hear American rock’n’roll. Clark not only discusses the evolution of his work... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art	Video Data Bank Chema Cobo: An Interview 1994 \| 00:00:00 Spanish painter Chema Cobo discusses his early years of studying and creating art in Southern Spain. His career began in the mid-1970s, exhibiting at the Buades and Vandrés galleries, along with a generation of now-established artists. His work... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, latino/chicano, painting, visual art	University of Colorado Robert Colescott: What... 1991 \| 30:00 Robert Colescott paints expressive parodies of Western masterpieces. His work—which has transformed Leutze’s George Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) into George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware (1975), Van Gogh’s... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview

Artists Television... John Cage: Artist... 1978 \| 28:00 John Cage’s work has had an immeasurable influence on 20th Century music and art, and his formal and technological innovations were tied to his desire to push the boundaries of the art world. In 1951 he initiated the first recording on magnetic... Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, music, performance	Artists Television... John Cage: Conversations 1978 \| 27:00 John Cage’s compositions and performances have had a profound influence on generations of musicians and artists. In this tape, he initiates For the Third Time as author Richard Kostelanetz interviews him. “I’ve left the punctuation out,... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, music, performance	Video Data Bank Cai Guo Qiang: An... 2000 \| 00:00:00 Cai Guo-Qiang is a sculptor and installation artist who was born in China and trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute. He continued his training in Tokyo, where he lived from 1986 to 1995. His conceptual and installation work... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: installation, sculpture, visual art
Video Data Bank Eddie Chambers: An... 2000 \| 00:00:00 One of the most uncompromising voices of the art establishment, Eddie Chambers is a curator and a regular contributor to Art Monthly and two European journals on contemporary art. His writings were collected in Run Through the Jungle... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview	Video Data Bank Shu Lea Cheang: An... 1998 \| 00:00:00 Shu Lea Cheang tackles conceptions of racial assimilation in American culture, examining the political underbelly of everyday situations that affect the relationship between... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview	Video Data Bank Mel Chin: An Interview 1991 \| 40:30 Mel Chin received national attention when he had to defend the artistic merits of his work Revival Field to the NEA in 1990. The work is a public sculpture aimed at cleansing toxically polluted areas of land through the introduction of... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview
Video Data Bank John Clark: An Interview 1988 \| 37:00 British painter John Clark describes his youth experiences in Northern England, finding escape in the library stacks in art books and at the milk bars where he could hear American rock’n’roll. Clark not only discusses the evolution of his work... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art	Video Data Bank Chema Cobo: An Interview 1994 \| 00:00:00 Spanish painter Chema Cobo discusses his early years of studying and creating art in Southern Spain. His career began in the mid-1970s, exhibiting at the Buades and Vandrés galleries, along with a generation of now-established artists. His work... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, latino/chicano, painting, visual art	University of Colorado Robert Colescott: What... 1991 \| 30:00 Robert Colescott paints expressive parodies of Western masterpieces. His work—which has transformed Leutze’s George Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) into George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware (1975), Van Gogh’s... Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview

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