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.
  Rudy Burckhardt—best known as a photographer and filmmaker—moved to New York from his native Basel in 1935 at age 21. Burckhardt shot portraits of many artists for Art News during the 1950s and early ’60s, capturing their work methods in...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview, photography |
Judy Chicago is an artist, author, feminist, educator, and intellectual whose career now spans four decades. In 1974, Chicago turned her attention to the subject of women’s history to create her best known work, The Dinner Party, which...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: feminism, installation, interview, visual art |
Judy Chicago’s large-scale, collaborative artwork has brought greater prominence to feminist themes and craft arts such as needlework and ceramics. Her most famous work, The Dinner Party (1979), was an enormous collaboration with...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: activism, feminism, interview, painting, visual art |
Chuck Close has been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s. As a young artist in the mid-’60s, Close turned away from the model of Abstract Expressionism to develop a simple but labor-intensive working method based upon...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
A. D. Coleman started writing regularly on photography in 1967 for the Village Voice, at a time when very few critics took the medium seriously. His work, according to Joel Eisinger, qualified him as perhaps "the first postmodernist...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Jim Dine first emerged as an avant-garde artist creating Happenings and performances with Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, and others in the early 1960s. Ultimately, he rejected the performances that led to his early success in favor of an...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
Rackstraw Downes’s “observation” paintings, executed on-site at ponds, intersections, and baseball parks, began as a mischievous response to the dogma of style and modernist criticism. “There was a tremendous intellectual back-up, essentially...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Eric Fischl's early works were large-scale abstract paintings. While teaching in Nova Scotia, Fischl began to shift from abstraction to smaller, image-oriented paintings, beginning with narrative works that investigated a fisherman's family. By...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
Louise Fishman is an abstract painter who uses knives rather than brushes to apply her undiluted colors. Her complex compositions place architectural shapes within other shapes. “Almost everything is covered in my paintings. I go through...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
