Oral history interview with Charles Linder
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1hr., 3 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Linder, Charles K., 1967-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Creator
content: Art Schools in California Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Art Schools in California Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Refusalon Gallery
label: Names
content: San Francisco Art Institute -- Students.
label: Names
content: University of California, Berkeley. Department of Art -- Students.
topic: label: Occupation
content: Gallery owners -- California
label: Occupation
content: Conceptual artists -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Art students -- California -- Interviews
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. This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1959 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: Linder, Charles K., 1967-
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
label: Creator
content: Art Schools in California Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles K. Linder (1967- ) is a conceptual artist and gallery owner from San Francisco, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 25 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1999 July 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.linder99
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Charles Linder conducted 1999 July 10, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art as part of the Art Schools in California Oral History Project, in Linder's home, San Francisco, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Linder focuses on his experiences at the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA, sculpture and video, 1990) and University of California, Berkeley (MFA, new genres program, 1997). He discusses the art programs at the two institutions in terms of the benefits provided to students facing careers in a highly competitive and commercial art world; his particular interests in the contrasting philosophies of the fine arts training with romantic bohemian individuals on one hand and the careerist (market and/or teaching) goals on the other;
label: Scope and Contents
content: his admiration of certain faculty members at both institutions and savoring the bohemian atmosphere of the SFAI especially; the efficacy of formal training for artists who need to prepare to make a living; founding the avant-garde Refusalon Gallery in 1990, created in part as his conceptual art piece investigating the often conflicting worlds of creative idealism and business realities; and turning the gallery over to his partner in early 1999 when finding that, as an artist, he could not reconcile the two.