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Fiber art: oral history transcript : visual thinking and the intelligent hand / 2003.
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Title:

Fiber art: oral history transcript: visual thinking and the intelligent hand / 2003
Fiber arts oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Laky, Gyongy, 1944-, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Nathan, Harriet, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Early years, family, World War II, escape, and arrival in America; education at the University of California, Berkeley; emergence as a professional artist; travel in India and Afghanistan; creating and leading Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts; faculty appointment at University of California, Davis, Dept. of Art; thoughts on various settings of fiber art.
Clippings, biographical information, copies of letters.

Date:

2003 (issued)

Subject:

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Fiberwork -- California
Textile crafts -- California
Textile design -- California
Basketwork -- California
Sculpture, American -- 20th century
Women artists -- California -- Interviews
Travail des fibres -- Californie
Textiles et tissus -- Dessins -- Californie
Vannerie -- Californie
Femmes artistes -- Californie -- Entretiens
Women artists
Textile design
Textile crafts
Sculpture, American
Fiberwork
Basketwork
California
Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts.
University of California, Davis. -- Art Department.
University of California, Davis. -- Art Department.
Laky, Gyongy -- 1944- -- Interviews
Laky, Gyongy -- 1944-

Note:

Gyöngy Laky ; with an introduction by Kenneth R. Trapp ; interviews conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1998-1999, Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Fiber arts oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3712 C:1-21.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

biography
Interviews.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volumes (xxxii, 246 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
21 audiocassettes
1 box.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.