Oral history interview with Tony (Anthony) Berlant
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 6 sound tape cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 6 hr., 4 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Berlant, Anthony
label: Interviewer
content: Pagel, David
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- California -- Santa Monica -- 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 administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Berlant, Anthony
label: Interviewer
content: Pagel, David
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Anthony Berlant (1941- ) is a painter and assemblage artist from Santa Monica, California. He is known for large-scale "collages" made of sheets of metal on which various images have been printed.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 209 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2003 August 23-September 20
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.berlan03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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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 Tony Berlant conducted 2003 August 23-September 20, by David Pagel, for the Archives of American Art, in Berlant's studio, in Santa Monica, California.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Berlant looks back on more than four decades of his work, discusses his family background; his influences and inspirations; his student years; the late 1960s in both Los Angeles and San Francisco; his life-long relationships with artists from both coasts; his teachers and colleagues; his method of working; and his side-career as a collector, dealer, and scholar of Navajo blankets, Mimbres pottery, and early human artifacts.