Oral history interview with Herbert Ferber
odd: label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Ferber, Herbert, 1906-1991
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
label: Names
content: Goossen, E. C.
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculpture -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Ferber, Herbert, 1906-1991
label: Interviewer
content: Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Sculptor, painter; New York, N.Y.; d. 1991.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound tape reel (Sound recordings, 5 in.)
label: Extent
content: 7 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.ferber62
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound tape reels
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 at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/Ferber62.htm
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Herbert Ferber conducted by Dorothy Seckler in 1962 for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ferber speaks on the subject of environmental sculpture; deciding how large to build a sculpture by imagining the spectator's experience viewing it; seeking a sense of permanence by building sculptures that are so large; his desire to have his sculptures be light and airy and off the ground; how his sculptures come very close to architecture; and making a sculpture on the ground and having to work on it by crawling through and sitting on it, gave him a sense of the presence of the work of art. He recalls Gene Goossen and others.