Richard Diebenkorn letters to Robert Stanley
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated 2016 by Robert Stanley.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Stanley (1942- ) is a painter and digital artist in Chicago, Illinois and Michigan City, Indiana.
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content: 2 Items
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977-1988
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.stanrobe
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Two letters from Richard Diebenkorn to artist and friend Robert Stanley.
label: Scope and Contents
content: In the first letter, dated August 2, 1977, Diebenkorn is responding to a letter from Stanley about Stanley's recent paintings. The second letter, dated July 28 [1988], is Diebenkorn's response to a letter that Stanley wrote to Diebenkorn after reading the essay, "The Anatomy of Painting Style: Description with Computer Rules," by Joan L. Kirsch and Russell A. Kirsch, MIT Press, 1988, about how an algorithm had been developed from Diebenkorn's compositional style. Diebenkorn's response includes his views concerning computer-based art.