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.
  Joan Mitchell was the daughter of physician James Herbert Mitchell and poet Marion Strobel. Mitchell spent much of the ’50s in New York, living on St. Mark’s Place on the Lower East Side, and was deeply involved with the second generation of the...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art history, interview, painting, visual art |
At the source of Linda M. Montano’s work is her search for a personal harmony and balance. She seeks to synthesize the intuitive processes that transform the private self with the rationality...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance |
Elizabeth Murray’s paintings have been referred to as “dandyish abstraction.” Although her work has gone through a number of stylistic changes, it has always been characterized by a personal alteration of the conventions of painting. Her work is...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
“I think that there’s been so much repression in the name of issues. And there always have been in terms of art... But I felt at that moment that I wasn’t involved with issues very, very strongly—that the issues were being taken care of by...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, interview, painting |
Alice Neel is known for portrait paintings of well-known persons and eccentric New York street types. Neel worked as a figurative painter throughout the decades of WPA realism, postwar abstract expressionism, 1960s Pop, and 1970s minimalism. She...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
Craig Owens was a critic who wrote and lectured extensively on contemporary art. He showed particular interest in the issues of photography, postmodernism, feminism, and Marxist thought. A former associate editor for October and senior...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, art history, feminism, interview, marxism, performance, photography |
Betty Parsons was an influential art dealer in mid to late 20th century New York. She used her gallery as a constant and influential advocate for the abstract avant-garde, renowned for championing new styles and artists well before they received...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Ed Paschke received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961 and his MFA in 1970. His paintings have evolved with the times; from his earlier paintings that depict characters on the fringe of society, to the more recent...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, interview, painting, visual art |
Philip Pearlstein began painting figures in the 1960s and is known as a leading figure in American Realism. His paintings evolved from an expressionistic style to a meticulously analytical vision. He attempts to present the model as a...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
