Who Gets to Call It Art: The Legend of Henry Geldzahler, 1935-1994
Type
Audio/Visual
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Category
Art, Documentary Film
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Palm Pictures, United States
Duration
80 min.
Subject
Geldzahler, Henry. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Warhol, Andy, -- 1928-1987. Johns, Jasper, -- 1930- Lichtenstein, Roy, -- 1923-1997. Art museum curators. Art -- Social aspects. Art -- United States -- 20th century. Artists -- United States
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Abstract
Henry Geldzahler (1935-94), star curator and cultural impresario, lived a life worth examining. The first curator of the Department of 20th-Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum, first director of visual arts for the National Endowment of the Arts, and the first full-time commissioner of cultural affairs for New York City, his landmark 1969 show at the Metropolitan is still remembered with awe. "New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970" filled 35 galleries with more than 400 groundbreaking works of contemporary art. This film is not a full biographical examination of this singular figure's life, but rather a portrait in profile, as many of 'his' artists talk about Geldzahler and what his friendship meant to them.
Description
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Artists included:
Jasper Johns, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Ivan Karp, Calvin Tomkins, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist, Jonas Mekas, George Lois, David Hockney, Mark Di Suvero, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Bellamy, Francesco Clemente, Franz Kline, Hilton Kramer, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella.
Artists included:
Jasper Johns, John Chamberlain, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Ivan Karp, Calvin Tomkins, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist, Jonas Mekas, George Lois, David Hockney, Mark Di Suvero, Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Bellamy, Francesco Clemente, Franz Kline, Hilton Kramer, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella.
Number of Copies
1
