Do you Really Believe That?

Dr. Frances Colpitt Audio Archive

John McCracken #6969 5.28.80

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.

Side 1: 33:33

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

Side 2: 22:43 – 34:00

On being psychically grounded and its relationship to his process