Oral history interview with Elaine Sturtevant
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 5 sound discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 9 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 3 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sturtevant, Elaine
label: Interviewer
content: Hainley, Bruce
label: Interviewer
content: Lobel, Michael
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content: Anthony Reynolds Gallery
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content: Bianchini Gallery
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content: Galerie J
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content: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Salzburg, Austria)
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content: Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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content: Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995
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content: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
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content: Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
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content: Givaudan, Claude
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content: Johns, Jasper, 1930-
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content: Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-
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content: Kittleman, Udo
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content: Kosuth, Joseph.
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content: Maenz, Paul
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content: Obrist, Hans Ulrich
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content: Oldenburg, Claes, 1929-
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content: Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008
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content: Reynolds, Anthony
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content: Ropac, Thaddäus J.
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content: Ruf, Beatrix
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content: Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
topic: label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Abstract expressionism
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content: Pop art
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content: Video art
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content: Multimedia (Art)
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: Sturtevant, Elaine
label: Interviewer
content: Hainley, Bruce
label: Interviewer
content: Lobel, Michael
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Elaine Sturtevant (1924-2014) was a multi-media artist in Paris, France and New York, N.Y. Bruce Hainley is a writer from Los Angeles, California. Michael Lobel is an art historian from New York, New York.
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content: 71 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2007 July 25-26
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.sturte07
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: An interview of Elaine Sturtevant conducted 2007 July 25-26, by Bruce Hainley and Michael Lobel, for the Archives of American Art, at the Archives of American Art, in New York, New York.
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content: Sturtevant speaks of her exhibitions, Raw Power at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris 2007; Cold Fear at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery in London, 2006; Brutal Truth at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, 2004; America America at Galerie J in Paris in 1966; Sturtevant at the Bianchini Gallery in New York in 1965; and others. She also talks about her work Hate Kill Falsity, 2006; the process of installing shows to present a totality of work instead of individual pieces; the concept of "copy" and its misattributions in her art; her interest in opening minds and engendering thinking; her master's degree in language and interest in the writings of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault; possessing confidence in her work to continue creating amidst years of misunderstanding and criticism; Abstract Expressionism and Pop art as catalysts in developing the philosophical concept of her work; frustration at being asked personal questions about the artists she was associated with; the reception of her art in Europe; using video as a medium to articulate visibility; and welcoming different interpretations of her work. Sturtevant also recalls Thaddaeus Ropac, Anthony Reynolds, Udo Kittelmann, Anselm Kiefer, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Claude Givaudan, Claes Oldenburg; Marcel Duchamp, Paul Maenz, Joseph Kosuth, and others.