Evidence, interpretation, and accident in archeology
Subtitle: John Boardman
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith and Claire L. Lyons ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Lyons, Claire L., 1955- interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: John Boardman
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
Notes: Includes index.

Open for qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

John Boardman is a classical art historian and archaeologist, specializing in Greek pottery. Born in Ilford, United Kingdom, Boardman received his B.A. (1948) and M.A. (1951) from Magdalene College, Cambridge. Between 1950 and 1952, he served in the Intelligence Corps in the British Army before becoming the assistant director of the British School of Athens (1952-1955). He left his post in Athens to become an assistant keeper at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford in 1955, and Lincoln Professor at the University of Oxford from 1978 until his retirement in 1994. Boardman participated in the excavations in Chios (1953-1955), and Tocra, Libya (1964-1965). Since retirement, Boardman has been serving as a Lincoln Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford.

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)