Michel Oren interviews with artists
name: label: Creator
content: Oren, Michel
label: Names
content: Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998
label: Names
content: Onslow-Ford, Gordon
label: Names
content: Ruda, Edwin
label: Names
content: Williams, William T., 1942-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Fluxus (Group of artists)
label: Topic
content: Smokehouse (Group of artists)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 1988-1992 by Michel Oren.
creator: label: Creator
content: Oren, Michel
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Oren conducted the interviews for research material on his planned book concerning artists' groups.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 91 Pages (Transcripts)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979-1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.orenmich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
altformavail: label: Reproduction Note
content: All photocopies.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Transcripts of interviews conducted by Michel Oren of printmaker Dick Higgins, and painters Gordon Onslow Ford, Ed Ruda and William T. Williams.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The Higgins interview (11 p.), done by telephone Sept. 30. 1979, relates to his association with the collaborative art group Fluxus during the 1960s. Onslow-Ford (32 p.), interviewed at his home in Inverness, Calif., Dec. 23, 1991, discusses his Surrealist circle in New York and living in Mexico. Williams (33 p.), interviewed in New York, Mar. 11, 1988, recalls his association with the collaborative art group Smokehouse, which included Williams, Guy Ciarcia, Billy Rose and Mel Edwards, ca. 1968-1970. Ruda (15 p.), interviewed in his New York studio March 11, 1988, discusses the artists' cooperative Park Place in New York, N.Y. (1963-1967), minimalism, and recalls artists Peter Forakis, Tony Magar, Frank Stella, Leo Vallador, Mark DiSuvero, Forrest Myers, David Novros, David Bourdon, and others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Oren (Michel) collection of Marxist Literary Group recordings are located in UC Irvine Critical Theory Archive.