Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Bengston, Billy Al
setName: label: See more items in
content: Billy Al Bengston papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Linear Feet (Box 9, OV 12)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967-circa 1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.bengbill, Series 7
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series consists of writings by Bengston and others. Writings and notes by Bengston concern exhibitions of West Coast art, thoughts on being an artist and the artistic community in general, motorcycles, autobiographical essays, and a recollection of John Altoon. Also included are art survey questionnaires sent out by Bengston; respondents include Peter Alexander, Carl Andre, John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, Joe Goode, Robert Graham, Roy Lichtenstein, John McCracken, Robert Motherwell, Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Peter Voulkos, and H.C. Westermann. Clippings of published articles by Bengston have been filed in this series. 

The bulk of the writings by others are essays written for exhibition catalogs. Also found are transcripts of interviews with Bengston, exhibition reviews, an article about the Doumani House project, essays about Bengston and his work, including one by Christopher Isherwood, and a proposed exhibition program by Walter Hopps, Robert Irwin, and Joshua Young.