Oral history interview with Bill Berkson
name: label: Interviewee
content: Berkson, Bill
label: Interviewer
content: Leddy, Annette
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
label: Occupation
content: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: New York school of art
label: Topic
content: Poets -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Poets -- 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Berkson, Bill
label: Interviewer
content: Leddy, Annette
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bill Berkson (1939- ) is a poet and art critic in San Francisco, California and New York, New York. Annette Leddy is a collector for the Archives of American Art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (6 hr., 15 min.), digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 96 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2015 September 29-October 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.berkso15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Bill Berkson conducted 2015 September 29-October 2, by Annette C. Leddy, for the Archives of American Art, at the Archives of American Art in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Berkson speaks of his friendships with second and third generation New York School artists and poets, changes in the art world from 1960 to the present, and the relationship between writing poetry and art criticism.