Oral history interview with Jerry Rothman

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Oral history interview with Jerry Rothman

2010 August 30-31

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An interview of Jerry Rothman conducted 2010 August 30 and 31, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Rothman's home and studio, in San Miguel del Allende, Mexico. Jerry Rothman and Mija Riedel discuss the artist's relocation to Mexico in 2004, the influence of Mexican folk art, his first design job as a teenager, his early marriage to Catherine Bosley the sculptor, her death caused by progressive MS, his experience creating public sculpture, designing dinnerware, the switch to working with clay sculpture, political commentary through artwork, the use of eroticism in his artwork, particularly Leda and the Swan, the form and color used for the Bay Views series as well as others, and his philosophy on form and perspective in artwork and renaissance artists.

Sound recording, master: 5 memory cards (4 hr., 31 min.) : secure digital ; 1.25 in.

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Riedel, Mija, 1958-

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Rothman, Jerry, 1933-

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Jerry Rothman (1933- ) is an American ceramicist living and working in Mexico. From the description of Jerry Rothman papers, 1989-2003. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 767864724 Jerry Rothman (1933- ) is a ceramist in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Mija Riedel is a writer and independent scholar in San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Jerry Rothman, 2010 Aug. 30-31 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 710020520 ...