INVENTORY OF THE INTERVIEWS WITH ART HISTORIANS, 1991-2002

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INVENTORY OF THE INTERVIEWS WITH ART HISTORIANS, 1991-2002

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Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

Biographical / Historical Note

Scope and Content of Collection

Indexing Terms

Descriptive Summary

Title: Interviews with art historians

Dates: 1991-2002

Collection number: 940109

Collector: Getty Research Institute

Extent: 6 linear feet

Repository: Getty Research Institute

Research Libary

Special Collections and Visual Resources

1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100

Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Abstract: Transcripts, audio recordings, and computer disks preserve interviews with contemporary art historians, archaeologists, bibliographers, and selected key individuals from the J. Paul Getty Trust.

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Language: Collection material is in English.

Administrative Information

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers except the unreformatted sound recordings and selected transcripts and recordings that are temporarily sealed and restricted.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Interviews with art historians, 1991-2002, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 940109

Acquisition Information

Produced by the repository in collaboration with the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles.

Processing History

Processed by J. Gibbs and Beth Guynn. This collection of interviews with art historians was developed from 1991 through 2002. Tapes, discs, and transcripts have been added to the collection from the following acquisitions: 950033, 950067, 950087, 960010, 960041, 960073, 970050, 980051. J. Gibbs created this finding aid in June 1998. Beth Guynn processed additions and revised the finding aid.

Biographical / Historical Note

The Oral History Documentation project was begun in collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1991. Seventeen interviews were completed, most by interviewer and historian Richard Cándida Smith, in collaboration with UCLA. The Oral History Program owns the tapes and electronic versions and this collection includes only the transcripts of these interviews. Transcripts of those interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

The project has been continued by the Getty Research Institute alone, and is an on-going effort to document and contribute to the history of the discipline of art history and closely related fields, particularly archaeology. Interviews, thus far, are with art and architectural historians, archaeologists, a bibliographer and historian of the book arts, a collector of artists’ papers, and leaders of art institutions, including the leadership of the Getty Trust.

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection of interviews with art historians includes bound transcripts and also, for those interviews conducted by the Getty Research Institute alone, audio cassette tapes of the interviews and computer disks for the transcripts. The project was begun in 1991, in collaboration with UCLA's Oral History Program, and continued by the Getty Research Institute when the collaboration ended. This was a multi-year project to document the history of the discipline of art history through the major contributors to art history and closely related fields.

The purpose of the project was to document the institutions, personalities, philosophical debates, pedagogical and field practice, the relationship of European and American scholarship, the impact of German émigré scholars, the role of women, post W.W.II collecting and connoisseurship, and the professionalization of the museum field.

Interviews in the field of classical archaeology are meant to explore the contributions of foreign archaeological schools in the Mediterranean, the changing politics of national archaeological superintendencies, the synthesis of classics, anthropology and art history, the impact of the “new archaeology” and other theoretical approaches, debates surrounding collecting and dealing in ancient art, and methods of interpretation.

Interviews document the professional, and sometimes the personal, lives of art and architectural historians (including Agnes Mongan, Julius Held, Manfredo Tafuri, George Kubler, James Ackerman, Otto von Simson, Otto Wittmann, Craig Smyth, among others) archaeologists (Phyllis W. Lehmann, Lane Faison, Griselda Pollock, Colin Renfrew, among others), a bibliographer and historian of the book arts (J. M. Edelstein), and a collector of Fluxus artists’ papers and works (Jean Brown). Interviews have been made with selected individuals at the J. Paul Getty Trust (J. M. Edelstein, Nancy Englander, Harold Williams). The interviews complement the archives of scholars’ papers held by the Getty Research Institute, Research Library.

Arrangement

Arranged in 3 series, by format: Series I. Transcripts, 1991-2002 Series II. Sound cassette tapes, 1991-2002 Series III. Computer disks of oral history transcripts, 1991-2002

Indexing Terms

Subjects - Names

Ackerman, James S

Argan, Giulio Carlo

Barocchi, Paola

Baxandall, Michael

Boardman, John, 1927-

Brown, Jean, 1911-

Buchthal, Hugo, 1909-1996

Coolidge, John, 1913-1995

Edelstein, J. M. (Jerome Melvin), 1924-1996.

Englander, Nancy

Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane), 1907-2006.

Grabar, Oleg

Hamilton, George Heard

Harrison, Evelyn B. (Evelyn Byrd)

Haskell, Francis, 1928-

Heckscher, Roxanne

Heckscher, William S. (William Sebastian), 1904-

Held, Julius Samuel, 1905-

Herrmann, Wolfgang, 1899-

Himmelmann, Nikolaus, 1929-

Hoffmann, Herbert

Kitzinger, Ernst, 1912-

Kubler, Elizabeth

Kubler, George, 1912-1996

Lee, Sherman E.

Lehmann, Phyllis Williams, 1912-

Lewis, Samella S.

Mongan, Agnes

Nochlin, Linda

Pollock, Griselda

Proske, Beatrice Gilman, 1899-

Renfrew, Colin, 1937-

Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo, 1929-

Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard Franz)

Simson, Otto Georg von, 1912-

Smyth, Craig Hugh

Steinberg, Leo, 1920-

Tafuri, Manfredo

Thompson, Homer A.

Vermeule, Cornelius Clarkson, 1925-

Von Bothmer, Dietrich, 1918-

Weitzmann, Kurt, 1904-1993

Williams, Harold Marvin, 1928-

Wittkower, Margot

Wittmann, Otto, 1911-2001

Subjects - Topics

Art historians--United States--Interviews

Archaeologists--United States--Interviews

Art †x Historiography--Study and teaching.

Genres and Forms of Material

Floppy disks

Interviews

Oral histories (document genres)

Sound recordings

Transcripts

Contributors