Oral history interview with Robert Breer
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 43 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Breer, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
label: Names
content: Bonino Gallery
label: Names
content: Galerie Denise René
label: Names
content: PepsiCo, Inc.
label: Names
content: Stanford University -- Students
label: Names
content: United States. Army
label: Names
content: Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
label: Names
content: Tinguely, Jean, 1925-
topic: label: Topic
content: Lyrical abstraction (Art movement)
label: Topic
content: Filmmakers -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Kinetic sculpture
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculpture
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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Breer, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Robert Breer (1926-2011) was a sculptor and filmmaker from Tappacu, New York.
function: label: Function
content: Film festivals
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 65 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973 July 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.breer73
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Robert Breer conducted 1973 July 10, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Breer speaks of his boyhood in Detroit; his family, and its activities in early auto engineering; attending Stanford University and drawing cartoons for its daily paper; Stanford's art department, his U.S. Army service; the influence of the Tannerhill collection; going to Paris and the art scene there in the 1950s; Galerie Denise René; making his first films in 1952; the experimental film movement and his involvement in it; Studio Parnene and its showings of his films; showings in America; tachism; his return to the United States; the Brussels Fair Film Festival; mutascopes; early sculptures; his "Bent Whale" transitional piece; kinetic sculpture; Tinguely and Oldenburg films; descriptions of some of his sculptures; his design for the Pepsi Cola Pavilion at the Japan Expo in 1970; the Bonino Gallery.