Oral history interview with Robert Mangold
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 32 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mangold, Robert, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Weiss, William L.
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- 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. Funding for this interview was provided by the Horace Goldsmith Foundation.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Mangold, Robert, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Weiss, William L.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Mangold (1937- ) is a painter from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files (1 hr., 32 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 16 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1994 June 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mangol94
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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Robert Mangold conducted 1994 June 3, by William Weiss, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Robert Mangold, one of the more notable American artists of the 1960's and 70's, contributed significantly to the development of the post Abstract Expressionist and as well as the Minimalist painting. The dialogue between the interviewer and Mangold is comprised of a series of questions and answers that chronologically trace and reveal the origins of Mangold's desire in the arts as well as how and where he began to receive instruction in and study the arts at an institutional level. Mangold later shared about his early career as a painter, particularly how his instructors as well as his close friends helped shape his artistic practice and his unique expression of painting. Towards the end of the interview, Mangold reflects on his work and concludes that his work is as fluid, dynamic, and transitional as much of his life experience had been both within and outside of the art world.