INVENTORY OF THE INTERVIEWS WITH ART HISTORIANS,
1991-2002
Finding Aid prepared by J. Gibbs, Beth Guynn
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Research Library
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©2006
J. Paul Getty Trust
INVENTORY OF INTERVIEWS WITH ART HISTORIANS,
1991-2002
Accession no. 940109
Finding aid prepared by J. Gibbs and Beth Guynn
Getty Research Institute
Contact Information:
- Getty Research Institute
- Research Library
- Special Collections and Visual Resources
- 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
- Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
- Phone: (310) 440-7390
- Fax: (310) 440-7780
- Email requests:
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/reference_form.html
- URL:
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/
- Processed by:
- J. Gibbs and Beth Guynn
- Date Completed:
-
2003
- Encoded by:
- Aptara
©2006 J. Paul Getty Trust
Descriptive Summary
Title: Interviews with art
historians
Dates: 1991-2002
Collection number: 940109
Collector:
Getty
Research Institute
Extent:
6 linear
feet
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: Transcripts, audio recordings, and computer
disks preserve interviews with contemporary art historians, archaeologists,
bibliographers, and selected key individuals from the J. Paul Getty
Trust.
Language: Collection material is in
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers except the unreformatted sound
recordings and selected transcripts and recordings that are temporarily sealed
and restricted.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Interviews with art historians, 1991-2002, Research Library, The
Getty Research Institute, Accession no. 940109
Acquisition Information
Produced by the repository in collaboration with the Oral History
Program, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing History
Processed by J. Gibbs and Beth Guynn. This collection of interviews
with art historians was developed from 1991 through 2002. Tapes, discs, and
transcripts have been added to the collection from the following acquisitions:
950033, 950067, 950087, 960010, 960041, 960073, 970050, 980051. J. Gibbs
created this finding aid in June 1998. Beth Guynn processed additions and
revised the finding aid.
Biographical / Historical Note
The Oral History Documentation project was begun in collaboration with
the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in
1991. Seventeen interviews were completed, most by interviewer and historian
Richard Cándida Smith, in collaboration with UCLA. The Oral History Program
owns the tapes and electronic versions and this collection includes only the
transcripts of these interviews. Transcripts of those interviews jointly
sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft
Library at Berkeley.
The project has been continued by the Getty Research Institute alone,
and is an on-going effort to document and contribute to the history of the
discipline of art history and closely related fields, particularly archaeology.
Interviews, thus far, are with art and architectural historians,
archaeologists, a bibliographer and historian of the book arts, a collector of
artists’ papers, and leaders of art institutions, including the leadership of
the Getty Trust.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection of interviews with art historians includes bound
transcripts and also, for those interviews conducted by the Getty Research
Institute alone, audio cassette tapes of the interviews and computer disks for
the transcripts. The project was begun in 1991, in collaboration with UCLA's
Oral History Program, and continued by the Getty Research Institute when the
collaboration ended. This was a multi-year project to document the history of
the discipline of art history through the major contributors to art history and
closely related fields.
The purpose of the project was to document the institutions,
personalities, philosophical debates, pedagogical and field practice, the
relationship of European and American scholarship, the impact of German émigré
scholars, the role of women, post W.W.II collecting and connoisseurship, and
the professionalization of the museum field.
Interviews in the field of classical archaeology are meant to explore
the contributions of foreign archaeological schools in the Mediterranean, the
changing politics of national archaeological superintendencies, the synthesis
of classics, anthropology and art history, the impact of the “new archaeology”
and other theoretical approaches, debates surrounding collecting and dealing in
ancient art, and methods of interpretation.
Interviews document the professional, and sometimes the personal,
lives of art and architectural historians (including Agnes Mongan, Julius Held,
Manfredo Tafuri, George Kubler, James Ackerman, Otto von Simson, Otto Wittmann,
Craig Smyth, among others) archaeologists (Phyllis W. Lehmann, Lane Faison,
Griselda Pollock, Colin Renfrew, among others), a bibliographer and historian
of the book arts (J. M. Edelstein), and a collector of Fluxus artists’ papers
and works (Jean Brown). Interviews have been made with selected individuals at
the J. Paul Getty Trust (J. M. Edelstein, Nancy Englander, Harold Williams).
The interviews complement the archives of scholars’ papers held by the Getty
Research Institute, Research Library.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Names
Ackerman, James
S
Argan, Giulio
Carlo
Barocchi, Paola
Baxandall,
Michael
Boardman, John,
1927-
Brown, Jean,
1911-
Buchthal, Hugo,
1909-1996
Coolidge, John,
1913-1995
Edelstein, J. M. (Jerome
Melvin), 1924-1996.
Englander,
Nancy
Faison, S. Lane (Samson
Lane), 1907-2006.
Grabar, Oleg
Hamilton, George
Heard
Harrison, Evelyn B.
(Evelyn Byrd)
Haskell, Francis,
1928-
Heckscher,
Roxanne
Heckscher, William S.
(William Sebastian), 1904-
Held, Julius Samuel,
1905-
Herrmann, Wolfgang,
1899-
Himmelmann, Nikolaus,
1929-
Hoffmann,
Herbert
Kitzinger, Ernst,
1912-
Kubler,
Elizabeth
Kubler, George,
1912-1996
Lee, Sherman E.
Lehmann, Phyllis Williams,
1912-
Lewis, Samella
S.
Mongan, Agnes
Nochlin, Linda
Pollock,
Griselda
Proske, Beatrice Gilman,
1899-
Renfrew, Colin,
1937-
Ridgway, Brunilde
Sismondo, 1929-
Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard
Franz)
Simson, Otto Georg von,
1912-
Smyth, Craig
Hugh
Steinberg, Leo,
1920-
Tafuri,
Manfredo
Thompson, Homer
A.
Vermeule, Cornelius
Clarkson, 1925-
Von Bothmer, Dietrich,
1918-
Weitzmann, Kurt,
1904-1993
Williams, Harold Marvin,
1928-
Wittkower,
Margot
Wittmann, Otto,
1911-2001
Subjects - Topics
Art historians--United
States--Interviews
Archaeologists--United
States--Interviews
Art †x
Historiography--Study and teaching.
Genres and Forms of Material
Floppy disks
Interviews
Oral histories (document
genres)
Sound
recordings
Transcripts
Contributors
Ackerman, James
S
Argan, Giulio
Carlo
Barocchi,
Paola
Baxandall,
Michael
Boardman, John,
1927-
Brown, Jean,
1911-
Buchthal, Hugo,
1909-1996
Cándida Smith,
Richard
Coolidge, John,
1913-1995
Edelstein, J. M. (Jerome
Melvin), 1924-1996.
Englander,
Nancy
Faison, S. Lane (Samson
Lane), 1907-2006.
Grabar, Oleg
Hamilton, George
Heard
Harrison, Evelyn B.
(Evelyn Byrd)
Haskell, Francis,
1928-
Heckscher,
Roxanne
Heckscher, William S.
(William Sebastian), 1904-
Held, Julius Samuel,
1905-
Herrmann, Wolfgang,
1899-
Himmelmann, Nikolaus,
1929-
Hoffmann,
Herbert
Kitzinger, Ernst,
1912-
Kubler,
Elizabeth
Kubler, George,
1912-1996
Lee, Sherman
E.
Lehmann, Phyllis
Williams, 1912-
Lewis, Samella
S.
Mongan, Agnes
Nochlin, Linda
Pollock,
Griselda
Proske, Beatrice Gilman,
1899-
Renfrew, Colin,
1937-
Ridgway, Brunilde
Sismondo, 1929-
Sekler, Eduard F. (Eduard
Franz)
Simson, Otto Georg von,
1912-
Smyth, Craig
Hugh
Steinberg, Leo,
1920-
Tafuri,
Manfredo
Thompson, Homer
A.
Vermeule, Cornelius
Clarkson, 1925-
Von Bothmer, Dietrich,
1918-
Weitzmann, Kurt,
1904-1993
Williams, Harold Marvin,
1928-
Wittkower,
Margot
Wittmann, Otto,
1911-2001
J. Paul Getty
Trust.
University of California,
Los Angeles. Oral History Program.
Series I.
Transcripts,
1991-2002
Scope and Content Note
Series contains typed transcripts of the taped interviews. Some
transcripts are restricted. In some instances, the transcript is edited, with
restricted information deleted until such time as the full interview may be
released. Unless otherwise specified, each transcript consists of one bound
volume. See Series II for sound cassettes, including use copies and reformats,
and Series III for the computer discs, which are restricted.
Box I/9-10
Sherman E. Lee
Scope and Content Note
Restricted material is deleted from the GRI copy. Blank lines
and pages show where material deleted; UCLA and Mr. Lee have complete copies of
interview.
Box I/20
Wolfgang Herrman
Scope and Content Note
Plus duplicate copy.
Box I/24
Francis Haskell
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until deaths of Francis and Larissa Haskell, or until
Jan. 1, 2010, whichever is later.
Box I/33
Deitrich von Bothmer
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until 10 years after his death.
Box I/34
J. M. Edelstein, full transcript
Box I/35
J. M. Edelstein, partial version of transcript,
softcover
Scope and Content Note
Disk for partial version of transcript is in Series III.
Box I/37
Griselda Pollock
Scope and Content Note
With errata sheets for title page
Box I/40
Brunilde Ridgway, Classical archaeology: the Bryn Mawr
tradition
Box I/42
Nancy Englander
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of her life.
Box I/43
Harold Williams vol. I
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box I/44
Harold Williams vol. II
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box I/45
Oleg Grabar: The Practice of Islamic art history,
1998
Box I/46
Herbert Hoffmann,
1998
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box I/47
Linda Nochlin: The Feminist turn in the social history
of art
Box I/48
Leo Steinberg: The Gestural trace
Box I/49
Samella Lewis: Image and belief,
1999
Series II.
Sound cassette tapes,
1991-2002
Scope and Content Note
Original sound cassettes, use copies and reformats. Some tapes
still need to be reformatted. The repository has numbered the cassette tapes,
C1-C45. The repository has reformatted some interviews. Archival masters and
copy masters are noted below, but shelved elsewhere.
Scope and Content Note
NOTE: Duplicate audio cassettes came with the archive. These
duplicates serve as use copies. Where duplicate cassettes are not present
however, the sound cassettes must be reformatted before use.
Box II/1
James Ackerman C1
Physical Description:
13 sound cassettes of 13 ; original.
Box II/1
Giulio Carlo Argan C2
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; original.
Box II/1
Paola Barocchi C3
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; original.
Box II/1
Michael Baxendall C4
Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes of 8 ; original.
Box II/1
John Boardman C5
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes of 5 ; original.
Box II/2
Jean Brown C6
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; original.
Box II/2
Hugo Buchtal C7
Physical Description:
3 sound cassettes of 3 ; original.
Box II/2
John Coolidge C8
Physical Description:
11 sound cassettes of 11 ; original..
Box II/2-3
J. M. (Jerome Melvin) Edelstein C9
Physical Description:
14 sound cassettes of 14 ; original.
Box II/3
Nancy Englander [tapes 1-2] C10
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; original.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of her life.
Box II/3
S. Lane Faison C11
Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes of 8 original.
Box II/3
Oleg Grabar C12
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 original.
Box II/3
George Herd Hamilton C13
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; original.
Box II/4
Evelyn B. Harrison C14
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; original.
Box II/4
Francis Haskell C15
Physical Description:
11 sound cassettes of 11 ; original.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until deaths of Francis and Larissa Haskell, or until
Jan. 1, 2010, whichever is later.
Box II/4
Roxamme Heckscher C16
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; original.
Box II/4
William S. Heckscher C17
Physical Description:
9 sound cassettes of 9 ; original.
Box II/4-5
Julius S. Held C18
Physical Description:
9 sound cassettes of 9 ; original.
Box II/5
Wolfgang Herrmann C19
Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes of 8 ; original.
Box II/5
Nikolaus Himmelmann C20
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; original.
Box II/5
Herbert Hoffmann C21
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes of 5 ; original.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box II/5-6
Ernst Kitzinger C22
Physical Description:
13 sound cassettes of 13 ; original.
Box II/6
Elizabeth Kubler C23
Physical Description:
1 sound cassette of 1 ; original.
Box II/6
George Kubler C24
Physical Description:
16 sound cassettes of 16 ; original.
Box II/6-7
Sherman E. Lee C25
Physical Description:
14 sound cassettes of 14 ; original.
Scope and Content Note
N.B., lacking tape number 10.
Box II/7
Phyllis Williams Lehmann C26
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6.
Box II/7
Samella S. Lewis C27
Physical Description:
12 sound cassettes of 12 ; original.
Box II/7
Agnes Mongan C28
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; original.
Box II/8
Linda Nochlin C29
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; original.
Box II/8
Griselda Pollock C30
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; original.
Box II/8
Beatrice Gilman Proske C31
Physical Description:
3 sound cassettes of 3 ; original.
Box II/8
Colin Renfrew C32
Physical Description:
11 sound cassettes of 11.
Box II/8
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway C33
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; original.
Box II/8
Edouard F. Sekler C34
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; original.
Box II/8
Otto Georg von Simson C35
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; original.
Box II/8
Craig Hugh Smyth C36
Physical Description:
10 sound cassettes of 10; original.
Box II/9
Leo Steinberg C37
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; original.
Box II/9
Manfredo Tafuri C38
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; original.
Box II/9
Homer A. Thompson C39
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; original.
Box II/9
Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule C40
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; original.
Box II/9
Dietrich Von Bothmer C41
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes of 5 ; original.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed.
Box II/9
Kurt Weitzmann C42
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; original.
Box II/9
Harold Marvin Williams C43
Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes of 8 ; original.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box II/9
Margot Wittkower C44
Physical Description:
14 sound cassettes of 14 ; original.
Box II/10
Otto Wittman C45
Physical Description:
20 sound cassettes of 20 ; original.
Box Use copies
C4 Michael Baxendall
Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes of 8 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C5 John Boardman
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes of 5 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C12 Oleg Grabar
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C14 Evelyn B. Harrison
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; use copy
Box Use copies
C16 Roxanne Heckscher
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; use copy
Box Use copies
C20 Nikolaus Himmelmann
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C22 Ernst Kitzinger
Physical Description:
13 sound cassettes of 13 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C27 Samella S. Lewis
Physical Description:
12 sound cassettes of 12 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C29 Linda Nochlin
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C30 Griselda Pollock
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C32 Colin Renfrew
Physical Description:
11 sound cassettes of 11 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C33 Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway
Physical Description:
6 sound cassettes of 6 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C37 Leo Steinberg
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C39 Homer A. Thompson
Physical Description:
7 sound cassettes of 7 ; use copy.
Box Use copies
C40 Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule
Physical Description:
4 sound cassettes of 4 ; use copy.
Box Sealed
C10 Nancy Englander
Physical Description:
2 sound cassettes of 2 ; use copy.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of her life.
Box Sealed
C15 Francis Haskell
Physical Description:
11 sound cassettes of 11 ; use copy.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until death of Francis and Larissa Haskell, or until Jan.
1, 2010, whichever is later.
Box Sealed
C21 Herbert Hoffmann
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes of 5 ; use copy.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box Sealed
C41 Dietrich Von Bothmer
Physical Description:
5 sound cassettes of 5 ; use copy.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed until 10 years after his death.
Box Sealed
C43 Harold Marvin Williams
Physical Description:
8 sound cassettes of 8 ; use copy.
Scope and Content Note
Sealed for the duration of his life.
Box Reformats
Reformatted sound cassettes
Scope and Content Note
These tapes, reformatted by the repository, have 4 generations:
originals, archival and copy masters, and use copies. Use copies are available
in the repostory for researchers.
Box Reformats
C7 Hugo Buchtal:
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (3 hr. 34 min.) : analog ; Archival
master.
4 sound discs (cds) : digital; Copy Master.
4 sound discs (cds) : digital; Use copy.
Box Reformats
C42 Kurt Weitzmann
Scope and Content Note
1 sound tape reel (8 hr, 9 min.) : analog ; Archival master.
9 sound discs (cds) : digital ; Copy master.
9 sound discs (cds) : digital; Use copy.
Series III.
Computer discs of oral history transcripts,
1991-2002
Scope and Content Note
Computer discs exist for most transcripts. UCLA holds the discs
for the transcripts completed under their aegis. The transcripts are in
WordPerfect or Microsoft Word. The discs are restricted and may not be used or
circulated.
Box III/1
Paolo Barocchi
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Michael Baxendall
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
John Boardman
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Hugo Buchthal
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
J.M. Edelstein
Physical Description:
2 disks
Scope and Content Note
1 disk for partial transcript, and 1 disk for full transcript;
full transcript was sealed until April 1, 2001.
Box III/1
Oleg Grabar
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Evelyn Harrison
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
William S. Heckscher
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Roxanne Heckscher
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Nikolaus Himmelmann
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Ernst Kitzinger
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Samella Lewis
Physical Description:
2 disks
Box III/1
Linda Nochlin
Physical Description:
2 disks
Box III/1
Griselda Pollock
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Beatrice G. Proske
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Brunilde Ridgeway
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Eduard Sekler
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Leo Steinberg
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Cornelius Vermeule
Physical Description:
1 disk
Box III/1
Margot Wittkower
Physical Description:
3 disks
Box III/1
Otto Wittmann
Physical Description:
2 disks
Box III/2
Nancy Englander
Physical Description:
1 disk, sealed
Box III/2
Francis Haskell
Physical Description:
2 disks, sealed
Box III/2
Dietrich von Bothmer
Physical Description:
1 disk, sealed.
Box III/2
Harold Marvin Williams
Physical Description:
1 disk, sealed.
