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:
n-us-ca
Laky, Gyongy -- 1944- -- Interviews
Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts.
University of California, Davis. -- Art Department.
Fiberwork -- California
Textile crafts -- California
Textile design -- California
Basketwork -- California
Sculpture, American -- 20th century
Women artists -- California -- Interviews
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.
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.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biography
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xxxii, 246 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
21 sound cassettes.
1 box.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1b76
BANC MSS 2004/218 c
Phonotape 3712 C:1-21
BANC MSS 2004/218 c suppl. box 1
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.