Oral history interview with Nancy Holt
odd: label: General
content: Poor sound quality in some sections.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Schwartz, Joyce Pomeroy
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Filmmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art patronage
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content: Public art
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content: Women artists
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content: Women sculptors
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content: Women filmmakers
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content: Women photographers
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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Holt, Nancy, 1938-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Schwartz, Joyce Pomeroy
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Nancy Holt (1938- ) is a sculptor, filmmaker, and installation artist from New York, N.Y. Married to sculptor Robert Smithson.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording: (1 hr., 35 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 33 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 Aug. 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.holt93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Nancy Holt conducted 1993 Aug. 3, by Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, at the artist's studio in New York, NY, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: In the interview, Holt talks about her body of work, including pieces such as Catch Basin, Star Crossed, Sun Tunnels, and Ransacked; her creative process; the conceptual and physical ideas that influence her work; why she does public art; the functions or needs public art fulfills for its audience; the difficulties of being a public artist; and the future of public art and its patronage. Holt also recalls Richard Long, Jan Dibbets, and others.