Oral history interview with Cliff Joseph
name: label: Creator
content: Joseph, Cliff, 1922-
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
label: Names
content: Art World in Turmoil Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Black Emergency Cultural Coalition
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- New York (State) -- New York
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content: Painting, Modern -- 20th century
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content: African American artists
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content: African American painters
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content: This interview is part of the Archives' 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. Funding for the interview was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, as part of AAA's "Art World in Turmoil" project.
creator: label: Creator
content: Joseph, Cliff, 1922-
label: Interviewer
content: Holmes, Doloris
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Cliff Joseph (1922-) was a painter and educator in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.joseph72
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line at http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/joseph72.htm
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content: Item is a transcript.
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content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of original tape unknown.
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content: Interview of Cliff Joseph conducted in 1972, by Doloris Holmes, for the Archives of American Art "Art World in Turmoil" oral history project. Joseph discusses the formation of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, which he co-chaired, in response to a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called "Harlem on My Mind." He talks about the impact of the black experience in art, his own art, and his affiliation with social protest artists. He describes the Coalition's attempts to persuade the Whitney to produce a show of black artists with a black curator.