Oral history interview with Louise Nevelson
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 46 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Glimcher, Arnold B.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Technique -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Nevelson, Louise, 1899-1988
label: Interviewer
content: Glimcher, Arnold B.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972 Jan. 30
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.nevels72
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Louise Nevelson conducted 1972 Jan. 30, by Arnold Glimcher, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Nevelson speaks of her childhood aspirations to become an artist; critics and patrons; the New York art world in the 1930s through the mid-1950s; the role of women in art; preconceptions of masculine versus feminine styles; her materials and tools; her choice to create sculpture rather than paintings; the influence of American Indian and African art; city construction forms in her sculpture; and collectors and collecting.