Blumenthal/Horsfield

Lyn Blumenthal has been recognized as a leading and innovative experimental feminist media artist and teacher. Her multi-disciplinary body of work included videos, sculpture, drawings and critical essays. She forged new directions and objectives for the field of independent video—not only creating important video pieces, but also envisioning alternative video as a critical voice within the culture, capable of exposing the numerous foibles and blind spots of mainstream media. Committed to the application of feminist theory to video practice, Blumenthal’s early ’80s art tapes investigate issues of women’s identity and sexuality as a crisis of representation. Her tapes weave together stunning visuals and theoretical analysis, most with an incisive humor that tears away the veil from cultural institutions such as television and the family. Blumenthal was co-director of the Video Data Bank with Kate Horsfield from its founding in 1976 until her death in 1988.

Kate Horsfield received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976 and in the same year co-founded the Video Data Bank with the late Lyn Blumenthal. Horsfield was Executive Director of the Video Data Bank from 1988 to 2006. Horsfield and Blumenthal began their research in contemporary art in video by producing over 200 video interviews with contemporary artists, photographers and critics, including artists such as Lee Krasner, Romare Bearden, Alice Neel, Joseph Beuys, Buckminster Fuller, and Vito Acconci. This group of interviews has become one of the largest and most valuable primary collections of resource material on contemporary artists in the country. Horsfield has also produced serveral thematic anthologies of video and collaborated with Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz on Ana Medieta: Fuego de Tierra. From 1980 to 1999, she taught courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Texas, Austin. After her retirement from Video Data Bank in 2006, Horsfield has split her time between New York, NY and Austin, TX.

Available Titles by Blumenthal/Horsfield

Title	Year	Runtime	Collection
Vito Acconci: An Interview	1983	01:03:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Chantal Akerman: An Interview	1976	00:50:38	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Laurie Anderson: An Interview	1977	00:43:30	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Eleanor Antin: An Interview	1979	00:44:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Alice Aycock: An Interview	1977	00:37:30	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
John Baldessari: An Interview	1979	00:33:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jennifer Bartlett: An Interview	1976	00:54:50	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Joseph Beuys: An Interview	1980	01:01:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Louise Bourgeois: An Interview	1975	00:30:40	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Stan Brakhage: An Interview	1977	00:34:12	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Phyllis Bramson: An Interview	1984	00:58:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Joan Brown: An Interview	1979	00:34:34	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Roger Brown: An Interview	1979	00:25:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Rudy Burckhardt: An Interview	1981	00:35:43	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sarah Canright: An Interview	1979	00:27:16	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Judy Chicago: The Dinner Party	1976	00:20:40	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Judy Chicago: An Interview	1975	00:18:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Chuck Close: An Interview	1980	00:46:38	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
A.D. Coleman: An Interview	1977	00:23:11	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jim Dine: An Interview	1978	00:38:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Rackstraw Downes: An Interview	1980	00:38:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Eric Fischl: An Interview	1984	00:49:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Louise Fishman: An Interview	1977	00:55:13	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Audrey Flack: An Interview	1978	00:35:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Hollis Frampton: An Interview	1979	00:41:47	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Buckminster Fuller: An Interview	1981	00:53:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Allen Ginsberg: An Interview	1988	00:28:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ron Gorchov: An Interview	1978	00:30:37	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Nancy Graves 1975: An Interview	1975	00:59:40	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Nancy Graves 1978: An Interview	1978	00:45:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Nancy Grossman 1975: An Interview	1975	00:30:12	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Nancy Grossman 1981: An Interview	1981	00:24:10	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Hans Haacke: An Interview	1980	00:37:24	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Helen and Newton Harrison: An Interview	1978	00:34:40	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Robert Heineken: An Interview	1976	00:29:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Doug Hollis: An Interview	1978	00:30:00	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Robert Irwin: An Interview	1976	00:40:32	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Miyoko Ito: An Interview	1978	00:54:52	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Yvonne Jacquette: An Interview	1981	00:33:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Estelle Jussim: An Interview	1980	00:27:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Allan Kaprow: An Interview	1979	00:49:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Alex Katz: An Interview	1977	00:38:30	Interviews, On Art and Artists
Lee Krasner: An Interview	1980	00:43:00	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Barbara Kruger: An Interview	1980	00:31:15	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Tom Lawson: An Interview	1983	01:00:12	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Sol Lewitt: An Interview	1977	00:46:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Lucy Lippard 1974: An Interview	1974	00:25:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Lucy Lippard 1979: An Interview	1979	01:03:36	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Nathan Lyons: An Interview	1978	00:34:45	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Agnes Martin 1974: An Interview	1974	00:41:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Agnes Martin 1976: An Interview	1976	00:31:13	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan: An Interview	1976	00:24:00	On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Mary Miss: An Interview	1978	00:52:17	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Joan Mitchell: An Interview	1974	00:30:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Meredith Monk: An Interview	1977	00:32:19	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Linda M. Montano 1984: An Interview	1984	00:40:25	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ree Morton: An Interview	1974	00:25:37	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Elizabeth Murray 1977: An Interview	1977	00:37:56	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Elizabeth Murray 1982: An Interview	1982	00:47:41	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Alice Neel: An Interview	1975	00:30:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Craig Owens: An Interview	1984	01:19:50	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Betty Parsons: An Interview	1975	00:45:07	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Ed Paschke: An Interview	1982	00:49:36	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Philip Pearlstein: An Interview	1977	00:45:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Arlene Raven: An Interview	1979	00:40:39	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Martha Rosler: An Interview	1984	01:09:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Susan Rothenberg: An Interview	1984	00:48:27	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Robert Ryman 1979: An Interview	1979	00:26:31	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Miriam Schapiro: An Interview	1976	00:43:45	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Peter Schjeldahl: An Interview	1982	00:46:20	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Joel Shapiro: An Interview	1982	00:20:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Hollis Sigler 1983: An Interview	1983	00:35:33	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Charles Simonds: An Interview	1979	00:48:21	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Nancy Spero: An Interview	1982	00:35:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Pat Steir 1975: An Interview	1975	00:42:20	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Pat Steir 1980: An Interview	1980	00:40:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Michelle Stuart: An Interview	1978	00:25:42	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
The Feminist Origins: VDB’s On Art and Artists Interview Collection	2015	00:52:39	Single Artist Compilations, On Art and Artists
Marcia Tucker 1974: An Interview	1974	00:12:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Marcia Tucker 1977: An Interview	1977	00:39:45	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
Jack Tworkov: An Interview	1981	00:48:00	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles
William T. Wiley: An Interview	1979	00:38:11	Interviews, On Art and Artists, Single Titles

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