Oral history interview with Mel Casas
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 5 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Casas, Mel, 1929-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Names
content: San Antonio College -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Almaraz, Carlos
label: Names
content: Garza, Carmen Lomas
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Chicano art
label: Topic
content: Chicano art movement
label: Topic
content: Chicano artists
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: Casas, Mel, 1929-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Mel Casas (1929-) is a painter from San Antonio, Texas.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 66 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1996 August 14 and 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.casas96
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Mel Casas conducted 1996 August 14-16, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Casas discusses his current work - dipped acrylic paintings in which technique and material become the subject; his involvement with Chicano art political issues and his own experience as a Mexican-American; a discussion of his family background; art education; early Abstract Expressionist painting; a shift to figuration; thirty years teaching at San Antonio College; the Chicano "movimiento"; and Chicano art and key figures, including Carlos Almaraz and Carmen Lomas Garza.