Oral history interview with Robert Mangold
name: label: Interviewee
content: Mangold, Robert, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Lyon, Christopher
label: Names
content: Cleveland Institute of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Mnuchin Gallery
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content: Pace Gallery
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content: Society for Visual Anthropology (U.S.) -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Art -- Students
label: Names
content: Albers, Josef
label: Names
content: Chaet, Bernard
label: Names
content: Hesse, Eva, 1936-1970
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content: Katz, Alex, 1927-
label: Names
content: LeWitt, Sol, 1928-2007
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content: Lippard, Lucy R.
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content: Marden, Brice, 1938-
label: Names
content: Nice, Don, 1932-
label: Names
content: Welliver, Neil
label: Names
content: Wyman, Robert
place: label: Place
content: Italy -- description and travel
label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.) -- Description and Travel
topic: label: Topic
content: Abstract expressionism
label: Topic
content: Art -- Technique
label: Topic
content: Minimal art
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content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Pop art
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: Mangold, Robert, 1937-
label: Interviewer
content: Lyon, Christopher
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Mangold (1937- ) is a minimalist artist in New York, New York. Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is an author and publisher in Brooklyn, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Items (sound files (2 hr., 43 min.) Audio, digital, wav)
label: Extent
content: 37 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Tascam DR-100MKII R000330.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2017 November 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.mangol17
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content: Collection descriptions
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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 is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Robert Mangold conducted 2017 November 16, by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Mangold's studio in Washingtonville, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Mangold speaks of his childhood in the North Tonawanda, New York; early experiences of drawing; attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, a summer program at Yale Norfolk, and graduate school at Yale; his first encounter and experiments with Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s; the influence of Pop art and New York City's built environment on his work; moving to New York in 1962; the art world social scene of the early 1960s; his teaching career at SVA; his investigative approach to art-making; his approach to making series of works; the influence of living in the countryside on his work; his investigations of drawn lines in paintings beginning in the late '60s; his recent decision to hire an assistant; his formative summer of 1974 in Italy; his 2017 retrospective survey at Mnuchin Gallery; and his comments on certain pieces reproduced in the Pace Gallery catalogue of his work. Mangold also recalls Bernard Chaet, Alex Katz, Josef Albers, Brice Marden, Neil Welliver, Lucy Lippard, Robert Ryman, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Don Nice, and others.