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Inside 500 Capp Street : oral history transcript : an oral history of David Ireland's house / 2003.
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Inside 500 Capp Street : oral history transcript: an oral history of David Ireland's house / 2003

Creator/Contributor:

Ireland, David, 1930-2009, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Riess, Suzanne B., interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

A digital video oral history with conceptual artist David Ireland that takes place at 500 Capp Street, the house he has restored and which serves as a showplace for his art: background on family and education; Hunter Africa, African influences; acquiring the house, insights into ownership, documenting initial decisions; materials used in making art, concrete, wax, wallpaper, dirt; accumulations of brooms, shoes, hair, air; the dumb balls, demonstrated; collectors and galleries; beliefs about art.
Catalogs, reviews, background information.
Tape 1: 60 minute version of interview; tape 2: 15 minute version of interview; tape 3: What follows: visiting artists, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder, David Ireland interview, 1992 (30 min.); tape 4: David Ireland, 500 Capp Street: a House with Much Tea, Laura J. Hoffman, director, producer, camera, 1996 (35 min.).

Date:

2003 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Artists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
Conceptual art
Artistes -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Entretiens
Art conceptuel
Conceptual
Artists
Conceptual art
California -- San Francisco
Ireland, David -- 1930-2009 -- Interviews
Ireland, David -- 1930-2009

Note:

David Ireland ; interviews conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 2001. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Video interviews are edited to 15 and 60 minute versions.
Title on videocassette: David Ireland at 500 Capp Street.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Videocassettes 3 and 4 also available on dvd transfer (Motion Picture 923 E).
Transcript 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 volume (viii, 150 pages) : illustrations, color portrait ; 29 cm
2 videocassettes : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
9 audiocassettes
1 portfolio + 2 videocassettes : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

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David Ireland at 500 Capp Street
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