Oral history interview with Ricardo E. Alegría
odd: label: General
content: Originaly recorded on 4 betacam videocassettes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Alegría, Ricardo E., 1921-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
label: Names
content: Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
label: Names
content: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
label: Names
content: Museo de las Américas (San Juan, P.R.)
label: Names
content: Partido Nacionalista (P.R.)
label: Names
content: Puerto Rican Artists Video Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Puerto Rico
label: Occupation
content: Historians
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Puerto Rico -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Anthropologists
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: Alegría, Ricardo E., 1921-2011
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ricardo E. Alegría (1921-2011) was a renowned anthropologist, historian, and educator in Puerto Rico. He founded the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña and the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Luis R. Cancel (1952- ) is a Puerto Rican arts administrator and artist from New York City, N.Y. Cancel is the President of Esperanto Internet Services, LLC. He is the former director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a scholar on 20th century Latin American and Puerto Rican art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items (video cassettes (Betacam))
label: Extent
content: 4 Items (video files (1 hr., 42 min), digital, mov)
label: Extent
content: 28 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 October 25
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.alegri97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This interview was audited and edited by Benji de la Piedra in 2024.
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
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Ricardo E. Alegría conducted 1997 October 25, by Luis R. Cancel, for the Archives of American Art's Puerto Rican Artists Video Project.