Oral history interview with Bruce Conner
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound tape reels.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Filmmakers -- California -- San Francisco -- 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 others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Conner, Bruce, 1933-2008
label: Interviewer
content: Karlstrom, Paul J.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was a painter and filmmaker from San Francisco, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974 August 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.conner74
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Bruce Conner conducted 1974 August 12, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Conner speaks of the San Francisco art scene at the time of his arrival there in the 1950s; early experiments in art "happenings" and filmmaking; inspirations for his work and the relationships between the various media he uses; his work with found objects, his use of themes of violence in his art, the critics' reactions to his work, and the motivations for the creations of some of his pieces.