Art historian : James S. Ackerman : oral history transcript / interviewed by Joel Gardner, Art History Oral Documentation Project. 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, 1994.

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Art historian : James S. Ackerman : oral history transcript / interviewed by Joel Gardner, Art History Oral Documentation Project. 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, 1994.

Ackerman discusses his childhood and family background; career as art historian and academic at Berkeley and Harvard. Topics include effects of the 1960s on art history, race, gender and tenure issues at Harvard, faculty recruitment, shift from Renaissance to 19th cent. as a research focus, marriages.

Transcript: 1 v. (xii, 356 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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James S. Ackerman (1919- ) was appointed professor of fine arts at Harvard University in 1960 and was chairman of the Fine Arts Department 1963-1968. From the description of Papers of James S. Ackerman, 1963-1975 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76976132 Art historian; Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born 1919. From the description of James S. Ackerman interview, 1991 Jan. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220210018 James Ackerman (1919- ...

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