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The artist speaks: the interview as documentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Stephen Bury  and
Helen Scott
Stephen Bury
Affiliation:
Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, The London Institute, Manresa Road, London SW3 6LS, UK
Helen Scott*
Affiliation:
Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, The London Institute, Manresa Road, London SW3 6LS, UK
*
[email protected]
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Abstract

Nearly every exhibition catalogue now contains an interview with, or related statement by, the artist. How and why did this become the norm? The increasing popularity of the artist’s words is traced back in this article to its roots in Romanticism, the rise of the mass media and the cult of the avant-garde artist. The value and reliability of the transcribed and printed words is questioned and a bibliography of published interviews with artists follows.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 4 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2000

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