Dr. Frances Colpitt Audio Archive
Interviews with the artist David Novros 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.
On seeing and reading Jackson Pollock and influences on Minimalists discussing, in particular, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, and Barnett Newman.
On the notion of line, design, light, contrast, planes, and “false” perceptions.
“And there we are at formalism”––on critics, art writing, and painting.
Architecture, wall painting without walls, and the importance of right angles.
“Not a question of style but of perception”––on illusion, reality, and abstraction.
On post-modernism and the problem with “isms”
On Minimalism being the least literary yet becoming the most literary giving birth to conceptual work and writing.