Anne Swartz interviews with artists
name: label: Creator
content: Swartz, Anne
label: Names
content: Jaudon, Valerie, 1945-
label: Names
content: Kozloff, Joyce
label: Names
content: Kushner, Robert, 1949-
label: Names
content: Lanigan-Schmidt, Thomas
label: Names
content: Lowe, Jean, 1960-
label: Names
content: MacConnel, Kim
label: Names
content: Patkin, Izhar
label: Names
content: Perreault, John, 1937-2015
label: Names
content: Perrone, Jeff
label: Names
content: Schapiro, Miriam, 1923-2015
label: Names
content: Smyth, Ned, 1948-
label: Names
content: Solomon, Holly, 1934-2002
label: Names
content: Zakanitch, Robert, 1935-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- Georgia -- Savannah
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Georgia
label: Topic
content: Feminists
label: Topic
content: Women art historians
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated in 2011 by Anne Swartz.
creator: label: Creator
content: Swartz, Anne
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content: Anne Swartz interviews with artists
abstract: label: Summary
content: The Anne Swartz interviews with artists measure 2.3 linear feet and contain video interviews with contributors to the Pattern and Decoration movement, conducted in 1998 for the production of the documentary Pattern and Decoration: The Great Untold Story (1999). Additional video of exhibitions and studio space are included, as well as the final version of the documentary.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anne Swartz is an art historian and art history professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Swartz created the interviews while working on a documentary project commissioned by the school.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.3 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998-1999
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.swaranne
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 2 series.

Series 1: Unedited Video for Documentary, 1998-1999 (Boxes 1-3; 23 folders)

Series 2: Pattern and Decoration: The Great Untold Story, 1998-1999 (Box 4; 1 folder)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed in 2019 by Tim Lake.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Some of the video recordings in this collection have been copied for research access and digital copies are available in the Archives of American Art.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Anne Swartz interviews with artists measure 2.3 linear feet and contain video interviews with contributors to the Pattern and Decoration movement, conducted in 1998 for the production of the documentary Pattern and Decoration: The Great Untold Story (1999).

Video interviews are conducted with artists Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Robert Kushner, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Izhar Patkin, Jeff Perrone, Miriam Schapiro, Ned Smyth, and Robert Zakanitch. Also found are interviews with curators John Perreault of Urban Glass and Holly Solomon of the Holly Solomon Gallery, both of New York City. Interviewees discuss the development, features, and success of the Pattern and Decoration movement from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, particularly as it relates to the feminist art movement. Unedited footage is found on camera original DVCPRO videocassettes, and all cassettes containing interviews also have duplicate VHS videocassettes. Five additional DVCPRO videocassettes contain b-roll production video. The final version of the documentary Pattern and Decoration: The Untold Story is found on both a DVCPRO dub master and a VHS distribution copy.