Marcel Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition records
name: label: Creator
content: Pasadena Art Museum
label: Names
content: British Broadcasting Corporation
label: Names
content: Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena, Calif.)
label: Names
content: Pasadena Art Museum
label: Interviewer
content: Carter, Earl
label: Names
content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Interviewer
content: Hamilton, George Heard
label: Interviewer
content: Hamilton, Richard, 1922-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- Exhibitions -- California -- Pasadena
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming in 1990 by the Pasadena Museum of Art, interviews were duplicated from the original reel to reel tapes onto three cassettes.
creator: label: Creator
content: Pasadena Art Museum
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pasadena Art Museum (founded 1924) is an art museum in Pasadena, Calif. Renamed Norton Simon Museum of Art in 1974 and later renamed the Norton Simon Museum. Held Duchamp retrospective in 1963.
function: label: Function
content: Art museums -- California -- Pasadena
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (microfilm reels and 3 sound cassettes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1959-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.pasaart
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 4388-4390 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Records relating to the Pasadena Museum of Art's exhibition "Marcel Duchamp", held 1963 Oct.8 -Nov. 3. Records include correspondence with Duchamp, work sheets, texts and layouts, catalog raisonne, loan agreements, printed matter, guest lists, shipping file, photographs, fact sheets, clippings, and untranscribed interviews.

The untranscribed interviews of Duchamp are recorded on three cassettes. The first cassette consists of interviews conducted in N.Y. and London for the British Broadcasting Corporation's "Art/Anti-Art Program" by George Heard Hamilton and Richard Hamilton in 1959; the second cassette, also for the BBC, is undated and contains excerpts of an interview conducted by Richard Hamilton; the third cassette is an interview of Duchamp conducted by Earl Carter of the Pasadena Museum of Art, October 1963.