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1. Interview of James S. Ackerman

Topic:
Art
Length:
14.35 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
Biographical Note:
Art historian and professor at Harvard University with a focus in Italian Renaissance architecture history.

2. Interview of William C. Agee

Topic:
Art
Length:
3.7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series focuses on the history of the Pasadena Museum of Art and its role as a pathbreaking venue for contemporary art in Southern California in the 1960s.
Biographical Note:
Curator and director of the Pasadena Art Museum.

3. Interview of Giulio Carlo Argan

Topic:
Art
Length:
2.7 hrs.
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
Biographical Note:
Director of the Pinacoteca Estense di Modena, inspector of museums and art galleries for the Ministry of Fine Arts, and founder and editor of Storia dell'Arte.

5. Interview of E. Maurice Bloch

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
Art
UCLA Faculty
Length:
24.4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of art history. Head of UCLA's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.

6. Interview of Irving Blum

Topic:
Art
Length:
6.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Owner of the Ferus Gallery and the Irving Blum Gallery.

7. Interview of Lois Boardman

Topic:
Art
Length:
2.15 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series focuses on the history of the Pasadena Museum of Art and its role as a pathbreaking venue for contemporary art in Southern California in the 1960s.
Biographical Note:
Program director of the Pasadena Art Museum.

8. Interview of Frances Lasker Brody

Topic:
Art
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Arts advocate and collector. Benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Huntington Library.

9. Interview of Jean Brown

Topic:
Art
Length:
8hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Art History - Oral Documentation Project are part of a cooperative venture between the Oral History Program and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, documents a generation of scholars who developed and elaborated paradigms of art history establi...
Biographical Note:
Collector of contemporary art and archival materials relating to the Dada and Surrealist movements. Organizer of the Jean Brown Archives at Shaker Seed House in Tyringham, Massachusetts.

10. Interview of Conrad Buff

Topic:
Art
Length:
10 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Artist and co-creator with his wife, Mary Buff, of illustrated children’s book.