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Interviewee:
Mangold, Robert, 1937-  Search this
Interviewer:
Lyon, Christopher, 1949-  Search this
Subject:
Albers, Josef  Search this
Chaet, Bernard  Search this
Hesse, Eva  Search this
Katz, Alex  Search this
LeWitt, Sol  Search this
Lippard, Lucy R.  Search this
Marden, Brice  Search this
Nice, Don  Search this
Welliver, Neil  Search this
Wyman, Robert  Search this
Cleveland Institute of Art  Search this
Mnuchin Gallery  Search this
Pace Gallery  Search this
Society for Visual Anthropology (U.S.)  Search this
Yale/Norfolk Summer School of Art  Search this
Type:
Interviews
Sound recordings
Place:
Italy -- description and travel
New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Place of publication, production, or execution:
New York (State)
Physical Description:
3 sound files (2 hr., 43 min.) Audio, digital, wav; 37 Pages, Transcript
Summary:
An interview with Robert Mangold conducted 2017 November 16, by Christopher Lyon, for the Archives of American Art, at Mangold's studio in Washingtonville, New York.
Mangold speaks of his childhood in the North Tonawanda, New York; early experiences of drawing; attending the Cleveland Institute of Art, a summer program at Yale Norfolk, and graduate school at Yale; his first encounter and experiments with Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s; the influence of Pop art and New York City's built environment on his work; moving to New York in 1962; the art world social scene of the early 1960s; his teaching career at SVA; his investigative approach to art-making; his approach to making series of works; the influence of living in the countryside on his work; his investigations of drawn lines in paintings beginning in the late '60s; his recent decision to hire an assistant; his formative summer of 1974 in Italy; his 2017 retrospective survey at Mnuchin Gallery; and his comments on certain pieces reproduced in the Pace Gallery catalogue of his work. Mangold also recalls Bernard Chaet, Alex Katz, Josef Albers, Brice Marden, Neil Welliver, Lucy Lippard, Robert Ryman, Sol LeWitt, Eva Hesse, Don Nice, and others.
Citation:
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Robert Mangold, 2017 November 16. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Forms:
Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
Funding:
Funding for this interview was provided by Janice Oresman.
Biography Note:
Robert Mangold (1937- ) is a minimalist artist in New York, New York. Christopher Lyon (1949- ) is an author and publisher in Brooklyn, New York.
Language Note:
English .
Provenance:
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.
Location Note:
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 750 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Topic:
Abstract expressionism  Search this
Art -- Technique  Search this
Minimal art  Search this
Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this
Pop art  Search this
Record number:
(DSI-AAA_CollID)17524
(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)391130
AAA_collcode_mangol17
Data Source:
Archives of American Art
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_391130