Oral history interview with Rolando Briseño
odd: label: General
content: Due to technical problems the interview was recorded on both compact disc and mini disc.
label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound discs and 2 compact discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 26 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Briseño, Rolando, 1952-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
label: Names
content: Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
label: Names
content: Amado, Jesse, 1951-
label: Names
content: Barraza, Santa
label: Names
content: De Syzslo, Fernando
label: Names
content: Del Viller, Melita
label: Names
content: Kanjo, Kathryn
label: Names
content: Mazuca, Roland
label: Names
content: Mondini-Ruiz, Franco, 1961-
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content: Orozco, Sylvia, 1954-
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content: Pace, Linda
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content: Ramirez, Chuck
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content: Von Honts, Jackie
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Mexican American artists
label: Topic
content: Catholicism
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content: Computer Art
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Gay artists
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content: Artists (LGBTQ)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Briseño, Rolando, 1952-
label: Interviewer
content: Cordova, Cary
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rolando Briseño (1952-) is a Chicano artist and activist from San Antonio, Texas. Theseme of his work often refelects social injustices, queer indentity, and food in culture. Briseño's mediums of work include painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and public art.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Cary Cordova (1970-) is an art historian from Austin, Texas.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 73 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004 March 16-26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brisen04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Rolando Briseño conducted 2004 March 16 and 26, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in San Antonio, Texas.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Briseño speaks of his family background; as a child going to Mexico during the summer; growing up in San Antonio; visiting the Witte Museum, taking art classes there; Jackie von Honts, a special tutor of Briseño; scholarship to Cooper Union in New York; Catholicism; Melita del Villar and realizing "Christian mythology"; exchange program with University of Texas, Austin and La Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru; calling himself Chicano; passion for food; traveling around Europe; politics and its influence; coming to terms with his sexuality; graduate school at Columbia University; interest in boxing; involvement in Con Safo; working on a computer as opposed to painting; and the Historic and Design Review Commission of San Antonio. Briseño also recalls Roland Mazuca, Fernando de Syzslo, Santa Barraza, Sylvia Orozco, Kathryn Kanjo, Linda Pace, Jesse Amado, Chuck Ramirez, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, and others.