Oral history interview with Barbara Bloom
name: label: Interviewee
content: Bloom, Barbara, 1951-
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
label: Names
content: Bennington College -- Students
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content: Biennale di Venezia
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content: California Institute of the Arts -- Students
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content: Baldessari, John, 1931-
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content: Berger, John
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content: Brock, Paul
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content: Broodthaers, Marcel
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content: Byars, James Lee
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content: Castelli, Leo
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content: Cotton, Paul, 1939-
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content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
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content: Fischl, Eric, 1948-
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content: Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983
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content: Gorney, Jay, 1896-1990
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content: Gould, Claudia, (Art museum curator)
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content: Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998
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content: Irwin, Robert, 1928-
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content: Kappe, Ray, 1927-
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content: Kienholz, Edward, 1927-
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content: Knowles, Alison, 1933-
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content: Mullican, Matt, 1951-
label: Names
content: Mulvey, Laura
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content: Orr, Eric, 1939-1998
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content: Paik, Nam June, 1932-
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content: Palestine, Charlemagne
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content: Paz, Octavio, 1914-
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content: Ruppersberg, Allen, 1944-
label: Names
content: Ruscha, Edward
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content: Salle, David, 1952-
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content: Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004
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content: Tcherepnin, Serge
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content: Tillim, Sidney, 1925-
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content: Trockel, Rosemarie, 1952-
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content: Wheeler, Doug, 1939-
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content: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
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content: Young, La Monte
place: label: Place
content: Europe -- description and travel
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content: Germany -- description and travel
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content: Germany (East) -- Description and Travel
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content: Holland -- Description and Travel
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content: Netherlands -- description and travel
topic: label: Occupation
content: Designers -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Installation artists -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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content: Art -- Study and teaching
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content: Fluxus (Group of artists)
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content: Judaism
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content: Women artists
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content: Women photographers
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content: Women designers
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: Bloom, Barbara, 1951-
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Barbara Bloom (1951- ) is a photographer, designer, and installation artist in New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is an artist and professor in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Items (Sound recording: 9 sound files (6 hr., 12 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 132 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2012 October 18-2013 January 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.bloom12
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Barbara Bloom conducted 2012 October-2013 January 31, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art, at Bloom's home and studio, in New York, New York.
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content: Bloom speaks of growing up in Brentwood, California; her first experience with art; her childhood and exposure to creativity; the influence of art and philosophy; going to museums as a kid; living in Monte Factor and then Los Angeles; her creative process, influences, and life as an artist; art mentors and art lessons with Cathy Herman; traveling with her family; her mom being an actress; attending Bennington College in Vermont, the 1960s, the and collage aesthetic; attending CalArt; the changes in art education at the university level; drugs use; Fluxus; John Cage and attending 4'33; living in Europe and specifically Netherlands, Germany, and Holland; books and love of reading; her daughter; the post-studio era; film and meta-movies; making "The Diamond Lane;" images and objects' connection to meanings; The Gaze; undressing the wall; Homage to Jean Seberg, Godard, Berlin; East Germany; being agnostic and Jewish; Venice Biennale; collectors; cycle of shows; MFA programs; The Tip of the Iceberg; surgeries; hospital visit, personal training, and recovery; The Seven Deadly Sins; her father; Tellus Magazine; Judaism; fabrications and drawings; archives; relationship between the artist and the viewer; her husband; 010011.net; recent show; and As It Were, So To Speak. Bloom also recalls Monte and Betty Factor, Ed Kienholz, Ron Kappe, Robbie Robe, Ray Kappe, Matt Mullican, Eric Orr, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler, Total: digital recordings; Claire Steinman, Rosemarie Trockel, Ash Grove, James Lee Byars, Frances Rey, Sidney Tillim, Norman O. Brown, Paul Cotton, Paul Brock, Buckminster Fuller, John Baldessari, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Serge Tcherepnin, Simone Forte, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, David Salle, Eric Fischl, Marcel Broodthaers, Susan Sontag, Tim Maul, Caroline Tisdale, Marcel Duchamp, Laura Mulvey, John Berger, Oscar Wilde, Ed Ruscha, Isabella Kacprzak, Octavio Paz, Leo Castelli, Allen Ruppersberg, Jay Gorney, Claudia Gould, Susan Bronstein, Donald Judd, Robert DuGrenier, Pistoletto, Anthony Coleman, Mel Bochner, and Ken Saylor.