Oral history interview with Douglas Crimp
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 10 digital sound files. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 7 hr., 14 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Crimp, Douglas
label: Interviewer
content: Burton, Johanna
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art historians -- New York (State) -- Rochester -- 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Crimp, Douglas
label: Interviewer
content: Burton, Johanna
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Douglas Crimp (1944-2019) was a professor and art critic in New York, New York.
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content: 125 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2009 March 8
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content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.crimp09
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: An interview of Douglas Crimp conducted 2009 March 8, by Johanna Burton, for the Archives of American Art, at the Crimp's home, in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Crimp speaks of his childhood in Couer d'Alene, Idaho; his education at Tulane University in New Orleans; his early experiences in New York while working with fashion designer Charles James, Diane Waldman at the Guggenheim, and Rosalind Krauss at October Magazine; the graduate program at City University in New York; his working relationship with Agnes Martin; the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space; his role in orchestrating the AIDS issue of October in 1987 and his subsequent break from October; his current memoirs; and his teaching positions at Sarah Lawrence and University of Rochester in New York. He comments on the cultural gay scene of New York and New Orleans and its influence on his own writings and perspective; his friendships with Helene Winer, Craig Owens, and Gregg Bordowitz; his impressions of the Pictures Generation exhibition at the Met; the role visual theory had played in his career; and the ideological climate of the art history community today. He concludes by explaining his current interest in film and dance, particularly concerning the work of Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer.