Oral history interview with Agnes Denes, 2019 May 14-23
Denes, Agnes
Painter, Sculptor, Environmental artist
Overview
Collection Information
Size: 11 sound files (5 hrs., 49 min.) Audio, digital, wav
Summary: An interview with Agnes Denes conducted 2019 May 14-23, by Liza Zapol, for the Archives of American Art at VillageCare Rehabilitation Center, in New York, N.Y.
Biographical/Historical Note
Interviewee Agnes Denes (1931- ) is a conceptual artist and environmental artist based in New York. Interviewer Liza Zapol (1978- ) is the Robert and Arlene Kogod Secretarial Scholar in Oral History at the Archives of American 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.
Funding
Funding for this interview was provided by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation.
Related Materials
The Archives of American Art also holds the papers of Agnes Denes.
How to Use This Collection
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Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Agnes Denes, 2019 May 14-23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.