Oral history interview with Emily Hofstatter
name: label: Interviewee
content: Hofstatter, Emily
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists' models -- 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. Funding for this interview provided by Bente and Gerald E. Buck Collection.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Hofstatter, Emily
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Emily Hofstattar was an artist's model from Burbank, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording (60 min.), analog.)
label: Extent
content: 19 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2000 May 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hofsta00
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
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 Emily Hofstatter conducted 2000 May 31, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Hofstatter's home, Burbank, Calif.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Hofstatter discusses her interest in becoming an artist's model; posing at the request of Sam Clayberger whose exhibition she attended with a friend; her motivation as seeking the experience of being an "art object," and participating in the art historical tradition of the nude; reaction of her friends; effect of posing on her; feminist issues of her generation; and the power dynamic between men and women.