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Title: Interview with Mary Bauermeister
Date: 1984 November 6
Physical Details: 2 sound cassettes ; 42 min., 49 sec.
Description: Tape 01 recordings have a mechanical noise. Tape 01, Side 02 has no intellectual content. Hayden Herrera interviews Mary Bauermeister. Discussion topics are wide-ranging and include Bauermeister's life, euphoria towards modern art in Germany after World War II, Nazism, events of the art scene in Cologne and wider Germany and cooperation between composers, artists and dancers, the Fluxus movement, and Bauermeister's recollections of the art scene in New York City in the sixties. Numerous people mentioned include Marcel Duchamp, Karheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, David Tudor, Christo.
Creator: Bauermeister, Mary, 1934-2023
Forms part of: Hayden Herrera papers, 1926-2006, bulk 1984-1997
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation Information: Mary Bauermeister and Hayden Herrera. Interview with Mary Bauermeister, 1984 November 6. Hayden Herrera papers, 1926-2006. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Availability: This item has been digitally reformatted. It is available by requesting an appointment in the Archives of American Art's reading rooms, or in certain situations as a Reproduction Request.
Digital ID: 24825