Dr. Frances Colpitt Audio Archive
Interview with the artist John McCracken for Colpitt's dissertation Critical Issues of Minimal Art(University of Southern California, 1982), which later became the seminal publication: Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective (UMI Research Press, 1990). Courtesy Frances Colpitt papers, 1932-2022, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution and Mary Colpitt, Executor Frances Jean Colpitt Estate.
Colpitt presents her working ideas on the crisis of criticism evidenced in Minimalism and Conceptual art weaving a brief background trajectory through dialogues on artists such as Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko.
On the seminal Primary Structures show and Minimalism
On being psychically grounded and its relationship to his process