Oral history interview with Antonio Martorell
name: label: Interviewee
content: Martorell, Antonio, 1939-
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
label: Names
content: Puerto Rican Artists Video Project
topic: label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Puerto Rico
label: Occupation
content: Graphic artists
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Puerto Rico -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
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: Martorell, Antonio, 1939-
label: Interviewer
content: Cancel, Luis R.
culture: label: Culture
content: Puerto Rican artists
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Antonio Martorell (1939- ) is a Puerto Rican writer, painter, graphic artist, and radio and television personality. He was awarded the United States National Medal of Arts in 2023.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Luis R. Cancel (1952- ) is a Puerto Rican arts administrator and artist from New York City, N.Y. Cancel is the President of Esperanto Internet Services, LLC. He is the former director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a scholar on 20th century Latin American and Puerto Rican art.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Items (6 video recordings (Betacam))
label: Extent
content: 6 Items (6 video files (2 hrs., 44 min.), digital, mov)
label: Extent
content: 39 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1997 Oct. 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.martor97
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Video recordings
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This interview was audited and edited by Benji de la Piedra in 2025.
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
label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Antonio Martorell conducted by Luis R. Cancel, October 31, 1997, for the Archives of American Art's Puerto Rican Artists Video Project.