Oral history interview with Giuseppe Panza
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 8 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 15 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hrs., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Panza, Giuseppe
label: Interviewer
content: Knight, Christopher, 1950-
label: Names
content: Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Panza, Giuseppe -- Art collections
topic: label: Topic
content: Art -- Collectors and collecting
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Panza, Giuseppe
label: Interviewer
content: Knight, Christopher, 1950-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Giuseppe Panza (1904-1988) was an art collector from Milan, Italy.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 114 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985 Apr. 2-4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.panza85
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: Published in: Art of the Sixties and Seventies: The Panza Collection (New York: Rizzoli, 1987)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Giuseppe Panza conducted 1985 Apr. 2-4, by Christopher Knight, for the Archives of American Art, in Los Angeles, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Panza speaks of his background and education; the development of his collecting interest; his shift of interest from European to American art; his appreciation of conceptual art; the collecting of environmental artwork; philosophical ideals and goals which influenced his collecting; and the acquisition of the Panza collection by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.