Oral history interview with Mary Miss
Object Details
- Interviewee
- Miss, Mary, 1944-
- Interviewer
- Leddy, Annette
- Names
- Heresies Collective, Inc.
- Occupation
- Environmental artists -- New York (State) -- New York
- Topic
- Environment (Art)
- Site-specific art
- Women artists
- 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
- Miss, Mary, 1944-
- Interviewer
- Leddy, Annette
- Sponsor
- Funding for this interview was provided by the Lichtenberg Family Foundation.
- Biographical / Historical
- Mary Miss (b. 1944) is an artist in New York known for her largescale environmental installations that draw attention to human interference in the natural world. She collaborates with scientists, historians, civil administrators, and engineers to raise public awareness around issues of sustainability and the environment.
- Extent
- 9 Items (sound files (4 hrs., 3 min.), digital, wav)
- 86 Pages (Transcript)
- Date
- 2016 July 18 and 20
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Identifier
- AAA.miss16
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- 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 Mary Miss conducted 2016 July 18 and 20, by Annette Leddy, for the Archives of American Art, at Miss' home and studio in New York, New York.
- Record ID
- ebl-1596371502279-1596371502281-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
Oral history interview with Mary Miss, 2016 July 18 and 20, Digital Sound Recording (Excerpt)
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