The fluxus movement : oral history transcript / Jean Brown ; interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993.

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The fluxus movement : oral history transcript / Jean Brown ; interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1993.

Art collector Jean Brown discusses the archive she and her husband Leonard formed on contemporary art, particularly dada and surrealist movements in the 1950's; Flexus and other neodada developments; Shaker furniture; the Women's Art Archive; individual artists.

Transcript: 1 v. (xiii, 261 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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Brown, Jean, 1911-1994

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Jean Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, 20 December 1911. Her father, Irving Levy, was a rare book dealer. During the Depression Brown worked in a library in Springfield, Massachusetts where she was trained in library cataloging. Brown amassed a significant and rich body of materials by many of the most influential and challenging artists of the 20th century. The initial inspiration for the collection was provided by Dada painters and poets: an anthology, 1951, edited by Robert Motherwell....

Smith, Richard Cándida

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University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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Art History Oral Documentation Project.

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