Oral history interview with Mary Beth Edelson

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Oral history interview with Mary Beth Edelson

2009 February 1-16

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An interview of Mary Beth Edelson conducted 2009 February 1 and 16, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Edelson's studio in New York, New York.

Sound recording, master: 4 sound discs (4 hr., 39 min.) : digital ; 2 5/8 in.

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Richards, Judith Olch

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Edelson, Mary Beth, 1933-2021

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Mary Beth Edelson; born Mary Elizabeth Johnson Feb. 6, 1933 in East Chicago, Indiana, died April 20 in Ocean Grove, N.J., aged 88; a pivotal artist and organizer in the feminist art movement of the 1970s who was known as much for her participation in public protests as for her ritualistic performances; activist; in 1972, she began another project that would last for decades: her "Story-gathering Boxes" which contain cards with prompts for viewers to respond to....