Oral history interview with Robert Irwin
Object Details
- General
- Originally recorded as 17 sound files. Duration is 11 hr., 2 min.
- Creator
- Irwin, Robert, 1928-
- Interviewer
- Simms, Matthew Thomas
- Creator
- United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
- Names
- United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
- Topic
- Artists -- California -- Interviews
- Installations (Art)
- 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.
- Creator
- Irwin, Robert, 1928-
- Interviewer
- Simms, Matthew Thomas
- Creator
- United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project
- Sponsor
- Funding for this interview was provided by the U.S. General Services Administration, Design Excellence and the Arts.
- Biographical / Historical
- Interviewee Robert Irwin (1928- ) is an installation artist from southern California. Interviewer Matthew Simms (1967- ) is a professor of Art History at the California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
- Extent
- 17 Items (sound files (11 hr., 2 min.), digital, wav)
- 160 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 2013 February 9- May 11
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.irwin13
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview of Robert Irwin conducted 2013 February 9-May 11, by Matthew Simms, for the Archives of American Art's U.S. General Services Administration, Design for Excellence and the Arts oral history project, at Irwin's home in San Diego, California.
- Restrictions
- For information on how to access this interview contact Reference Services.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596366096626-1596366096628-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Robert Irwin, 2013 February 9- May 11, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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