Object Details
sova.aaa.brisen04
- General
- Due to technical problems the interview was recorded on both compact disc and mini disc.
- Originally recorded on 2 sound discs and 2 compact discs. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 26 min.
- Interviewee
- Briseño, Rolando, 1952-
- Interviewer
- Cordova, Cary
- Names
- Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas
- Amado, Jesse, 1951-
- Barraza, Santa
- De Syzslo, Fernando
- Del Viller, Melita
- Kanjo, Kathryn
- Mazuca, Roland
- Mondini-Ruiz, Franco, 1961-
- Orozco, Sylvia, 1954-
- Pace, Linda
- Ramirez, Chuck
- Von Honts, Jackie
- Topic
- Painters -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Interviews
- Mexican American artists
- Catholicism
- Computer Art
- Latino and Latin American artists
- Gay artists
- Artists (LGBTQ)
- 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.
- Interviewee
- Briseño, Rolando, 1952-
- Interviewer
- Cordova, Cary
- Sponsor
- This interview is part of the series "Recuerdos Orales: Interviews of the Latino Art Community in Texas," supported by Federal funds for Latino programming, administered by the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. The digital preservation of this interview received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.
- Biographical / Historical
- Rolando Briseño (1952-) is a Chicano artist and activist from San Antonio, Texas. Theseme of his work often refelects social injustices, queer indentity, and food in culture. Briseño's mediums of work include painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and public art.
- Cary Cordova (1970-) is an art historian from Austin, Texas.
- Extent
- 73 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 2004 March 16-26
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.brisen04
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the recording is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Scope and Contents
- An interview with Rolando Briseño conducted 2004 March 16 and 26, by Cary Cordova, for the Archives of American Art, in San Antonio, Texas.
- Briseño speaks of his family background; as a child going to Mexico during the summer; growing up in San Antonio; visiting the Witte Museum, taking art classes there; Jackie von Honts, a special tutor of Briseño; scholarship to Cooper Union in New York; Catholicism; Melita del Villar and realizing "Christian mythology"; exchange program with University of Texas, Austin and La Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, Peru; calling himself Chicano; passion for food; traveling around Europe; politics and its influence; coming to terms with his sexuality; graduate school at Columbia University; interest in boxing; involvement in Con Safo; working on a computer as opposed to painting; and the Historic and Design Review Commission of San Antonio. Briseño also recalls Roland Mazuca, Fernando de Syzslo, Santa Barraza, Sylvia Orozco, Kathryn Kanjo, Linda Pace, Jesse Amado, Chuck Ramirez, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, and others.
- Restrictions
- This interview is open for research. Contact Reference Services for more information.
AAA.brisen04
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- Record ID
- ebl-1596353421977-1596353421980-0

