Christine Tamblyn papers, 1962-1998, (bulk 1976-1997)

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Christine Tamblyn papers, 1962-1998, (bulk 1976-1997)

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This collection comprises notes, correspondence, interviews, photographs, slides, audio and video recordings, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, books, catalogues, printed ephemera, and artifacts collected and created during the life and career of artist, critic, and educator Christine Tamblyn. The bulk of this collection consists of materials documenting Tamblyn's artwork, writings, academic career, and professional activities from the 1970s through 1990s. The collection also includes some personal files and juvenilia. The collection is particularly strong in the area of conceptual art, performance, video and digital media in the 1970s and 1980s, representing her work as a multimedia, video, and performance artist as well her role as writer and critic. Files include extensive documentation of two of Tamblyn's CD-ROM works, (1993) and (1995). Materials concerning such artists as Karen Finley, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, and others can be found throughout the collection. Significant issues and debates in the U.S. art world of the 1970s to 1990s are well documented in Tamblyn's articles, essays, and reviews for a variety of publications, including , and . Materials also reflect Tamblyn's participation in the national and international art world, primarily through her attendance at and presentations for conferences and symposia, but the geographic emphasis is Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area. The collection also contains posthumously collected materials, including the multimedia CD-ROM (1998). She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology Mistaken Identities Afterimage, Art news, Cinematograph, Art week, High Performance, Leonardo New Art Examiner Archival Quality

20.1 linear feet (44 boxes and 14 oversize folders)

eng,

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6657674

University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections

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Hershman-Leeson, Lynn, 1941-

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American sculptor and installation artist. From the description of Lynn Hershman Leeson archive, 1979-2003. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 318092232 Biographical Note Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941) is a performance artist and filmmaker who, in various media, has investigated the idea of selfhood and what establishes an individual as a sentient, gendered, unique person. Between the years of 1974 and 1978...

Tamblyn, Christine

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Christine Tamblyn was an American artist, feminist critic, and educator active in Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1970s through 1990s, and known for her performance pieces and multimedia works utilizing CD-ROMs and video. She was born in 1951. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1980s. From the late 1970s through the 1990s she was actively involved in a variety of exhibits and conferences. Between 1985 and 1996 she taught at S...

Finley, Karen

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