Oral history interview with Liliane Lijn, 1972 Oct. 29

Collection Information

Size: 98 Pages, Transcript

Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 58 min.

Summary: An interview of Liliane Lijn conducted 1972 Oct. 29, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art. She discusses growing up in New York City; her early education at Hickory Ridge School; living in Switzerland as a teenager; studying at Sorbonne and the École du Louvre; exhibiting work in Paris, New York, and London; sculptural works with plastics and unusual materials; use of light, projections, and reflections in her sculptures; her "Poem Machines," her influences, including physics and Buddhism; her partner Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis); and sculpture commissions in the United Kingdom.

Biographical/Historical Note

Liliane Lijn (1939- ) is an sculptor and painter from New York, New York. She has lived in London, England since 1966.

Provenance

This interview is part of the Archives' 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 others.

Language Note

English .

Funding

This interview received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative Pool.