Archives of American Art

[Richard Bauer] [videorecording]

Summary

Collection ID:
AAA.bauerich
Creators:
Bauer, Richard, 1944-
Dates:
[1984]
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
1 Item
videocassette (120 min)
sd., col.
1/2 in.
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
A video composed of five segments on Bauer and his body cast sculptures and shows. The segments are titled on the cassette label: Exhibition tape; "Body Casts" Solo @ Gregory Ghent; 1st Photo Session, Model- Albert; Making of Mold for CRUCIFORM V; and Making of Mold for CRUCIFORM IV. Also included is a duplicate video cassette "The Cave of Making". "Exhibition tape" is footage from the television program "Eye on Hollywood," and is filmed at the Ankrum Gallery in Los Angeles during Bauer's exhibition [1984], and shows a body cast on the program's host. "'Body Casts', Solo" is of Bauer's one man show at the Gregory Ghent Gallery in San Francisco [1984]. The remainder are of Bauer preparing and working on molds in his studio, ca. 1984.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Sculptor; San Francisco, California.

Administration

Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated 1985 and 1987 by Richard Bauer.

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