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.
  Sphinxes Without Secrets is an energetic and transgressive acount of outstanding female performance artists, and an invaluable document of feminist avant-garde work of the 70s and 80s. No Mona Lisa smiles here, as performance artists...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art history, conceptual art, documentation, feminism, interview, lgbt, performance |
Art Spiegelman was born and raised in New York, and began working as a cartoonist while still in High School. He attended the State University of New York in Binghamton, where he studied Philosophy. Spiegelman, who continued to work as a...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Pat Steir is an American painter and printmaker, whose work has resisted artworld currents and factions for decades while expanding its reach and maintaining enthusiastic critical support. She graduated from Pratt in 1962 and in 1964 was included...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Robert Snyder’s accomplished films on the lives of artists have received wide recognition, from Gene Youngblood’s praise (“your work is important to humanity for reasons which transcend the medium”) to a 1951 Oscar for his first of two...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
John Tagg is a writer, educator, and a leading contributor to the development of art-historical and photographic theory, focusing on political analysis of institutionalized culture and interventions within it. He is a professor of art history at...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, interview, photography, politics |
Parry Teasdale is a founding member of the early alternative media group Videofreex and its off-shoot Media Bus. More recently, he published a historical memoir, Videofreex: America...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, history, interview, politics |
This tape is a media arts collaboration between Joe Leonardi, Cathleen Kane, and radio artist Joe Frank. It is a synthesis of three “dark humored” radio pieces adapted for video.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: conceptual art, interview |
This tape was produced by Artists TV Network, documenting a symposium that included composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, writer Richard Kostelanetz, and video artist Nam...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview, music, technology |
Danny Tisdale is a performance artist from New York City. His performances challenge prevailing ideas of race, assimilation, appropriation and success by offering passers-by the chance to racially change their appearance as a means to achieve...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: african-american, installation, interview, performance, race |
