The gestural trace
Subtitle: Leo Steinberg
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; 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; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Leo Steinberg
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 bibliographical references and 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.

Art critic and art historian Leo Steinberg (1920-2011) was born in Moscow of German Jewish parents, and lived in Berlin and London before emigrating to the United States in 1945. He taught at Hunter College, City University of New York, and at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1983, he became the first art historian to receive the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters.

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