Oral history interview with Elaine Lustig Cohen, 2009.

Biographical Note

Artist.

Scope and Contents

Born Elaine Furstenberg in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1927; Jewish family; father's career as a plumber; mother's career as a secretary; first marriage to Alvin Lustig in 1948; second marriage to Arthur Cohen in 1956; education: H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, B.F.A. University of Southern California; career: school teacher, freelance graphic designer, painter, book dealer Ex Libris; art exhibitions: first solo artist exhibition at John Bernard Myers Gallery in New York City, first exhibition of female artists at Mary Boone Gallery in New York City; awards: American Academy in Rome, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, International Association of Art Critics Award; discussion of style and artistic ideas: abstract geometry, hard-edge, minimalism, constructivism, influence of Bauhaus, influence of abstract expressionists, typeface, alphabet and letters, photography collages, ephemera collages, shape generation; discussion of artistic issues: dichotomy between art and design, growing art world and contemporary exhibition politics; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• Cohen, Elaine Lustig, 1927-2016--Interviews.
• Feminism and art.
• Glueck, Grace H., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women artists--Interviews.

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