Oral history interview with Antonio Homem
name: label: Interviewee
content: Homem, Antonio
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
label: Names
content: Centre Georges Pompidou
label: Names
content: Ileana Sonnabend (Gallery)
label: Names
content: Acconci, Vito, 1940-
label: Names
content: Baldessari, John, 1931-
label: Names
content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930-
label: Names
content: Guy, Michel
label: Names
content: Ludwig, Peter, 1925-
label: Names
content: Nauman, Bruce, 1941-
label: Names
content: Panza, Giuseppe
label: Names
content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
label: Names
content: Sharp, Willoughby, 1936-2008
label: Names
content: Sonnabend, Ileana
label: Names
content: Sonnabend, Michael
label: Names
content: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
place: label: Place
content: Paris (France) -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Spain -- description and travel
label: Place
content: Zurich (Switzerland)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Gallery directors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Art dealers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Conceptual art
label: Topic
content: Pop art
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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Homem, Antonio
label: Interviewer
content: McElhinney, James Lancel, 1952-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Antonio Homem is the director and owner of the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York. James McElhinney (1952- ) is a painter and educator of New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (Sound recording: 4 sound files (4 hr.,10 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 80 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 March 14-23
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.homem16
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Antonio Homem, conducted 2016 March 14 and 23, by James McElhinney, for the Archives of American Art at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Homem speaks of his early memories of art and his childhood in Portugal; going to museums in Paris and Spain; studying engineering at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland; working in a gallery in Zurich; reading Proust; discussion of reading, understanding, and misunderstanding art and literature; meeting Ileana and Michael Sonnabend in 1965; subsequently working at the Sonnabend gallery from 1968; job responsibilities; opening galleries in New York in 1970 and 1971; Showing new artists, like Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari; Willoughby Sharpe, Shunk and Kender and the Pier 18 Project; the differences between collectors and gallery visitors of New York and Paris; the influence of the creation of the Centre Pompidou; his thoughts on the evolution of artistic taste; Duchamp; Pop art; Arte Povera; and evolution of art market from the 1970s to the present. Homem also recalls Ileana Sonnabend in detail, Robert Rauschenburg, Andy Warhol, Jean-Luc Godard, Michel Guy, Marcel and Giselle Boulois, Dr. Peter Ludwig, Count Panza, and others.