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Artists’ lives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Cathy Courtney*
Affiliation:
National Life Story Collection, National Sound Archive, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK
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Abstract

Since 1990 the National Life Story Collection has documented the lives of almost eighty of Britain’s visual artists by means of in-depth tape-recordings, often completed over many months. Cathy Courtney, Project Officer of Artists’ Lives, describes the evolution of an initiative which will subtly alter the context in which historians of the future come to assess the art of our time.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1998

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References

1. The members of the Advisory Committee are Sir Alan Bowness, Judith Bumpus, Penelope Curtis, Caroline Cuthbert, Mel Gooding, Beth Houghton and Margaret Thornton, with the NLSC’s Director Dr Robert Perks, and Cathy Courtney, Project Officer for Artists’ Lives.Google Scholar
2. The contact for Artists’ Lives is the Library Manager, Denise Raine, The Henry Moore Institute, 71 The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA, UK.Google Scholar