Oral history interview with Muriel Castanis
name: label: Creator
content: Castanis, Muriel, 1926-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
label: Names
content: Women Artists in Revolution
topic: label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are 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: Creator
content: Castanis, Muriel, 1926-2006
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Muriel Castanis (1926-2006) was a sculptor in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.castan71
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3196 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Reproduction Note
content: Item is a transcript.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Muriel Castanis conducted in 1971, by Doloris Holmes, for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project. Castanis speaks of the problems confronting women artists, the attempts by the group WAR (Women Artists in Revolution) to address these problems, consciousness-raising among women artists, art as a vehicle for social change, her development as an artist, and her work with fabric.