Oral history interview with Xiaoze Xie
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 6 memory cards. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 8 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Xie, Xiaoze
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
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content: United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
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content: United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Video artists
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content: Painters
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content: Asian American art
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content: Asian American artists
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content: Chinese American art
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content: Chinese American artists
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content: Asian American painters
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content: Asian American curators
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content: Asian American video artists
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content: Asian American educators
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: Xie, Xiaoze
label: Interviewer
content: Riedel, Mija, 1958-
label: Creator
content: United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Xiaoze Xie (1966- ) is a Chinese American visual artist and professor based in Palo Alto, California. Interviewer Mija Riedel (1958- ) is a writer and independent scholar in San Francisco, California.
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content: 58 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 May 10-11
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.xie10
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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
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Xiaoze Xie conducted 2010 May 10 and 11, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's U.S. General Services Administration, Design for Excellence and the Arts oral history project at Xie's studio in Stanford, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Xie speaks of growing up in a rural area of southern China; the incorporation of historical events into his work; the development of his series Library in the US and China; his education, including attending graduate school for architecture at the Central Academy of Art and Design in Beijing and at the University of North Texas for painting; the outbreak of the pro-democracy student movement in China in 1989; his first big artwork in the US, Duet; the incorporation of Photorealism in his work; his piece Flags and Banners, which used existing photographs as source images; the process of making his paintings using newspapers as source images; his GSA commission, Iowa Reports; the urgency he felt to create political work after September 11, 2001; comparisons of his work with that of other contemporary American and Chinese artists; and his influences including Gerhard Richter. Xie also recalls Vincent Falsetta, Vernon Fisher, Xu Beihong, Lin Fengmian, Liu Haisu, Wu Zuoren, and others.