Carolee Thea Papers
Scope and Contents
The materials in the Carolee Thea Papers focus primarily on her career as a writer, with considerable amounts of research materials and documentation surrounding her projects.
Series I: Publications contains documentation and drafts (including some media and visual materials) related to Foci: Interviews with Ten International Curators (2001), and On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators (2009), as well as other writings and projects from 1997 to present including proposed articles and curatorial proposals.
Series II: Media contains audio recordings of interviews that resulted in her two books and various other published articles.
Series III: Personal and Professional Papers contains notebooks, journals, memorabilia, and early writings on art including Thea’s own artistic practice.
Dates
- 1971 - 2012
- Majority of material found within 2001 - 2009
Creator
- Thea, Carolee (Person)
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to researchers without restrictions. Appointments are necessary to consult manuscript and archival materials. Access copies for media materials may not be available yet. Please contact the CCS Archivist for further details.
Use Restrictions
Collection use is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Director of the Library & Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Please contact ccslib@bard.edu or 845-758-7567 for more information.
Biographical / Historical
Carolee Thea is an artist, curator, and writer best known for her two books of interviews with international curators, Foci: Interviews with Ten International Curators (2001), and On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators (2009). A third book in this series, Interviews with International Curators from Africa, Latin America, The Middle East and Asia, will be published in 2015. Thea has traveled extensively covering large-scale international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, the Istanbul Biennial, and Documenta, which has laid the groundwork for her interviews that comprise the three books. Carolee attended Columbia University and Skidmore College as an undergraduate, and completed a masters degree in 1976 at Hunter College, City University of New York. There she formed relationships with artists Robert Barry and Robert Morris, and worked closely with renowned art historian and critic Leo Steinberg, who had a strong impact on her work as a writer. Since 1975, Thea’s many articles, reviews and interviews have been published in national and international journals, magazines and newspapers, including Parkett, artforum.com, Artnet, Bomb, ArtAsiaPacific The Brooklyn Rail and Atlantica. She is a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Sculpture Magazine.
Extent
4 Linear Feet (in nine boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is comprised of three series:
Series I: Publications, arranged chronologically by date of publication, followed by proposals and research materials.
Series II: Media, arranged alphabetically by name of interviewee.
Series III: Personal and Professional Papers, arranged chronologically, and followed by an alphabetical list of publication titles.
Provenance
The Carolee Thea Papers were donated by Carolee Thea to the Center for Curatorial Studies Archives in 2012.
Separated Materials
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- Art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Art -- 21st Century -- Exhibitions Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Art criticism -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Art, Modern -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Art, Modern -- 21st Century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Audiocassettes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Backstein, Joseph
- Barzel, Amnon
- Biesenbach, Klaus
- Bussmann, Klaus
- CDRs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Cao, Fei 1978-
- Cardiff, Janet 1957-
- Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn
- Color negatives Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Curatorship Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- DVDs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Enwezor, Okwui
- Esche, Charles
- Finkelpearl, Tom
- Freudenheim, Tom
- Gioni, Massimiliano
- Goldberg, RoseLee
- Hamilton, Ann 1956-
- Hasegawa, Yuko 1955-
- Hlavajova, Maria 1971-
- Hou, Hanru
- Jacob, Mary Jane
- Konig, Kasper
- Kortun, Vasif
- London, Barbara J. 1946-
- Magnetic disks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Martinez, Rosa
- Matzner, Florian
- Obrist, Hans-Ulrich
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Pi, Li 1974-
- Press kits Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Promotional materials Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Reviews (documents) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Reyes, Pedro 1972
- Serials (publications) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Slavin, Arlene
- Spector, Nancy
- Szeemann, Harald
- Thea, Carolee
- Tiravanija, Rirkrit 1961-
- Vostell, Wolf, 1932-1998
- Weiwei, Ai
- Title
- Guide to the Carolee Thea Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Ryan Evans; Collection processed by Ryan Evans, 2014; revised May 2015.
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Curatorial Studies Library & Archives Repository
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson 12504-5000 USA
845-758-7567
845-758-2442 (Fax)
ccslib@bard.edu
