A Finding Aid to the Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins Research Materials on Alexander Liberman, 1927-1999, in the Archives of American Art
Christopher DeMairo The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee. 2019/08/19
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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Biographical / Historical...... 2 Scope and Contents...... 2 Arrangement...... 2 Names and Subjects ...... 3 Container Listing ...... 4 Series 1: Interviews and Transcripts, 1987-1994...... 4 Series 2: Research Files, 1927-1999...... 20 Series 3: Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman, circa 1988-1992...... 22 Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins research materials on Alexander Liberman AAA.kazadodi
Collection Overview
Repository: Archives of American Art
Title: Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins research materials on Alexander Liberman
Identifier: AAA.kazadodi
Date: 1927-1999
Creator: Kazanjian, Dodie, 1952- Tomkins, Calvin, 1925-
Extent: 7.8 Linear feet
Language: English .
Summary: The Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins research materials on Alexander Liberman measures 7.8 linear feet and date from 1927-1999. The collection contains sound recordings of interviews, interview transcripts, correspondence, biographical material, clippings, and some photographs. The papers and recordings were predominantly compiled during Kazanjian and Tomkin's preparation for their book, Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman (1993).
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information The collection was donated in 1999 by Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins. Related Materials The Archives of American Art houses two other collections that may be of use to researchers interested in either Alexander Liberman or Dodie Kazanjian. The collections are the Alexander Liberman papers, 1912-2003, and the Dodie Kazanjian papers, 1949-2017, bulk 1980-2017. Processing Information The collection was processed and a finding aid was written by Christopher DeMairo in 2019. Preferred Citation Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins research materials on Alexander Liberman, circa 1927-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Restrictions This collection is access restricted; written permission is required. Contact Reference Services for more information. Access, with permission, to original papers and audiovisual material requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Conditions Governing Use Authorization to publish, quote, or reproduce requires written permission from Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins. Contact Reference Services for more information.
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Biographical / Historical
Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman (Knopf, 1993) was written by Dodie Kazanjian and her husband Calvin Tomkins. Kazanjian and Tomkins are both authors and art critics in New York, New York. Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) was Editorial Director for Conde Nast for 51 years as well as an accomplished artist. Kazanjian was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1952. She received her undergraduate degree from Salve Regina College in 1974, and subsequently worked a number of writing and editing jobs with the Washington Post, Washington Starr, House and Garden, Vogue, and The New Yorker. She has authored five books, held the position of communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts, and is currently the Director of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. Tomkins is a writer and art critic who was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1925. He graduated from Princeton University in 1948, and went on to work as a journalist for Radio Free Europe and then Newsweek. Tomkins joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1960. Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) was a Russian-American magazine executive, writer, painter, photographer, and sculptor. Liberman was born in 1912 in Kiev Russia. He was educated in London and the École des Beaux Art in Paris. While in France he was introduction to a career in publication working at Vu magazine owned by Lucien Vogel. After emigrating to New York in 1941, Liberman began working at Conde Nast Publications. For the next twenty years Liberman held multiple positions with Conde Nast's publication Vogue. Liberman was named Conde Nast's editorial director in 1964, a position he held until 1992. In addition to Liberman's career as an editor with Conde Nast, he wrote The Artist in His Studio (1960) and Marlene: An Intimate Photographic Memoir (1992), and has paintings and sculptures featured in museums and public sites worldwide.
Scope and Contents
The Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins research materials on Alexander Liberman measures 7.8 linear feet and contains sound recordings of interviews, interview transcripts, correspondence, biographical material, clippings, and some photographs. The interviews include cassette tapes and transcripts documenting Alexander Liberman's professional and personal life. A portion of the interviews are with Liberman himself, but a majority of the interviewees are Liberman's contemporaries and peers including artists, publishers, personal friends, and art collectors. The collection's research files contain school records, articles and clippings, legal documents, and correspondence. Kazanjian's and Tomkins's notes and annotations are found dispersed throughout the research files. This collection also contains drafts and an edited manuscript of the book, Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged as 3 series
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• Series 1: Interviews and Transcripts, 1987-1994 (5.1 linear feet; Boxes 1-15) • Series 2: Research Files, 1927-1999 (1.2 linear feet; Boxes 15-16) • Series 3: Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman, circa 1988-1992 (7 folders; Boxes 16-17)
Names and Subject Terms
This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:
Types of Materials: Interviews Sound recordings
Names: Liberman, Alexander, 1912-1999 Liberman, Alexander, 1912-1999 -- Interviews
Occupations: Art critics -- New York (State) -- New York Authors -- New York (State) -- New York
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Container Listing
Series 1: Interviews and Transcripts, 1987-1994
5.1 Linear feet (Shoeboxes 1-13; Box 14-15) Scope and This series includes 216 sound cassettes and transcripts from interviews with Alexander Contents: Liberman discussing various topics, and over 60 of Liberman's peers and associates. The interview topics include Liberman's professional career as both an artist and publisher, Liberman's personal life, the interviewees relationship with Liberman, and a variety of anecdotes about the 20th century art and fashion world.
1.1: Sound Recordings, 1987-1994 Arrangement: It should be noted that some of the cassette tapes found in the series contain interviews with multiple individuals. The decision was made to list each interviewee individually in an alphabetical arrangement so that the interviews may be easily identified. The inventory is alphabetical, but some container numbers are not sequential as a result.
Box 1, Item 1 Alexander Liberman, on Abstract Art, 1988 December 19 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 2 Alexander Liberman, on Art and His Art; on Tatiana, October, 1988 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 3 Alexander Liberman, on Art and Early Years, circa 1988 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 4-5 Alexander Liberman, on Artist in His Studio, 1988 October 21 2 Sound cassettes
Box 1, Item 6 Alexander Liberman, on Allure, 1990 October 1 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 7 Alexander Liberman, on Auctions, 1988 November 11 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 8 Alexander Liberman, on Avedon; Life at Home; Refinements, 1990 May 2 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 9 Alexander Liberman, on Baseball; Bullfights, 1988 December 7 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 10 Alexander Liberman, the Card Trick, 1990 June 6 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 11 Alexander Liberman, Cars, 1988 December 1 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 12 Alexander Liberman, Castration; His Art, 1989 February 27
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1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 2 Alexander Liberman, Death, Tatiana, and Art, 1988 November 14, December 6 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 13 Alexander Liberman on Dietrich, Marlene , 1988 November 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 14-16 Alexander Liberman, on Early Years, 1988 September 30 3 Sound cassettes
Box 1, Item 17 Alexander Liberman, Fashion as Art; Frenchy the Driver, 1988 November 15 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 1 Alexander Liberman, Finances; office; Vreeland; Patcevitch; Anna, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 2 Alexander Liberman, on Francine, Tatiana; Art, 1988 October 25-26 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 3 Alexander Liberman, Frankenthaler, Helen, 1988 November 9 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 4 Alexander Liberman, French Magazines, 1989 January 22 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 5 Alexander Liberman, Gardening, 1989 January 10 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 6 Alexander Liberman, Guilt, 1989 February 23 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 7 Alexander Liberman, Health; Tatiana, 1991 May 21 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 8 Alexander Liberman, Hilda, 1989 April 6 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 9 Alexander Liberman, on Mirabella, 1989 February 22 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 10-11 Alexander Liberman, Mother, 1989 January; 1989 November 7 2 Sound cassettes
Box 2, Item 12 Alexander Liberman, New York Beginnings, 1988 October 18-19 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 13 Alexander Liberman, Noble Hiring and Firing, 1988 November 22
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1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 14 Alexander Liberman, Patcevich; Art; Money, 1988 October 12 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 15 Alexander Liberman, Patcevitch, 1990 February 2 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 16 Alexander Liberman, Photography, 1990 September 13 1 Sound cassette
Box 2, Item 17 Alexander Liberman, Peck, Priscilla; Yacovleff; Mother, 1990 January 11 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 1 Alexander Liberman, Peck, Priscilla Art , 1988 October 19 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 2 Alexander Liberman, Refugees and Art, 1988 November 21 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 3 Alexander Liberman, Sculpture, 1988 October 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 4 Alexander Liberman, Snobs; Art, 1988 November 26 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 5-6 Alexander Liberman, Social Circles; 1950s Greenberg and Showing, 1988 November 28 2 Sound cassettes
Box 3, Item 7 Alexander Liberman, Studio Film, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 8 Alexander Liberman, Vogel, England, Russia, Paris, 1990 January 7 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 9 Alexander Liberman, Vogue, 1988 October 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 10 Alexander Liberman, Vogue Covers, 1990 May 10 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 11 Alexander Liberman, Vogue Editor John Richardson and Arga Brodovich, 1990 March 5 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 12 Alexander Liberman, Vreeland, Anna; Tina, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 13 Alexander Liberman, War and Escape; Patcevitch; Hilda, Lubee, 1988 October 13-14
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1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 14 Alexander Liberman, Warhol, Andy, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 15 Alexander Liberman, Warhol Show; Dominique Nabokov, 1989 February 7-9 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 16 Alexander Liberman, Women, Tatiana, and Running Household, 1989 November 12 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 17 Alexander Liberman, 1987 January 4 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 1 Alexander Liberman, 1988 October 14 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 2 Alexander Liberman, 1988 November 1 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 3 Alexander Liberman, 1988 November 8 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 4 Alexander Liberman, 1988 November 8 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 5 Alexander Liberman, 1988 December 3 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 6 Alexander Liberman, 1988 December 12 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 7-9 Alexander Liberman, 1988 December 27 2 Sound cassettes
Box 4, Item 10 Alexander Liberman, 1989 January 9 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 11 Alexander Liberman, 1989 January 11-20 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 12 Alexander Liberman, 1989 January 15 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 13 Alexander Liberman, 1989 January 17 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 14-15 Alexander Liberman, 1989 January
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2 Sound cassettes
Box 4, Item 16 Alexander Liberman, 1989 March 27 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 17 Alexander Liberman, 1989 April 14 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 1 Alexander Liberman, 1989 August 1 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 2 Alexander Liberman, 1989 August 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 3 Alexander Liberman, 1989 September 15 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 4 Alexander Liberman, 1989 November 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 5 Alexander Liberman, 1990 March 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 6 Alexander Liberman, 1990 April 13 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 7 Alexander Liberman, 1990 June 10 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 8 Alexander Liberman, 1990 August 17 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 9 Alexander Liberman, 1990 October 3 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 10 Alexander Liberman, 1992 January 24 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 11 Alexander Liberman, 1992 April 5 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 12 Alexander Liberman, 1992 June 12 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 13-17 Alexander Liberman, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 6, Item 1-17 Alexander Liberman, undated
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17 Sound cassettes
Box 7, Item 1 Alexander Liberman, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 3 Alexander Liberman, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 3 Alloway, Lawrence, 1989 March 13 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 1 Auchincloss, Mrs., undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 4-5 Avedon, Richard, 1990 March 28 2 Sound cassettes
Box 7, Item 6-9 Bartlett, Jennifer, 1992 4 Sound cassettes
Box 7, Item 15 Beach, Milo, 1987 June 5 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 10 Brodsky, Joseph, 1990 March 25 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 11-12 Brown, Cecily, 199[0?] November 16 2 Sound cassettes
Box 5, Item 13 Brown, Hal, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 14 Brown, Tina, 1990 February 8 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 13 Cage, John, 1991 January 9 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 14 Callie, Sophie, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 15 Cahan, Bill, 1989 July 17 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 16 De la Renta, Oscar, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 15-16 Donovan, Carrie, undated
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2 Sound cassettes
Box 7, Item 17 Emmerich, Andre, 1988 November 16 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 4 Evans, Harry, 1989 November 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 1 Ford, Walton, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 2 Freud, Lucian, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 3 Fried, Micheline, 1989 April 12-13 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 4 Gagosian, Larry, 1989 July 7 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 16 Gratz, Donald, 1989 March 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 5-8 Gray, Cleve and Francine, 1989 4 Sound cassettes
Box 5, Item 17 Gray, Cleve, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 9 Gray, Cleve, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 7-9 Gray, Francine, 1988 December 27 3 Sound cassettes
Box 8, Item 10 Gray, Francine, 1991 January 10 1 Sound cassette
Box 3, Item 17 Greenberg, Clement, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 11-16 Greenberg, Clement, 1989 6 Sound cassettes
Box 8, Item 16 Gregorian, Vartan, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 17 Gregory, Alexis, 1989 March 7
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1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 3 Gross, Amy, 1988 November 8 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 7 Marcel Guildame, 1988 October 27 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 1 Hampton, Mark, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 12 Hartnett, Susan, 1998 September 30 1 Sound cassette
Box 12, Item 6 Hoag, Sharon, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 1 Howard, Jean, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 2 Hopps, Walter, 1990 November 6 1 Sound cassette
Box 11, Item 1 Horn, Roni, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 3 Hughes, Bob, 1990 June 14 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 4 Isaac, Michael, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 5 Kasper, Eddie, 1989 March 14 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 6-7 Kelly, Ellsworth, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 12 Kissinger, Henry, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 8 Koons, Picasso, Frank Stella, Glimscher, Serra, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 9-12 Koons, Jeff, 1990 4 Sound cassettes
Box 6, Item 1 Kramer, Hilton, undated
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1 Sound cassette
Box 4, Item 17 Layman, Bill, 1989 April 14 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 15 Lawton, Tom, 1987 June 4 1 Sound cassette
Box 6, Item 2 Lerman, Leo, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 13 Liberman, Bill, 1990 March 28 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 14-15 Lichtenstein, Roy, 1993 May 17 2 Sound cassettes
Box 6, Item 3 Lidoval, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 16 Lesser, Bernie, 1992 July 13 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 17 Lloyd, Kate, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 12, Item 9 MacGraw, Buck, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 1 Mirabella, Grace, 1989 July 11 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 2 Moses, Mabel, 1989 January 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 13 Motherwell, Robert, 1991 January 9 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 3-6 Newhouse, Si, 1989 February 4 Sound cassettes
Box 2, Item 9 Novogrod, Nancy, 1989 February 22 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 7 Novogrod, Nancy, 1990 March 30 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 8 Olitski, Jules, undated
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1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 17 Penn, Irving, Kazanjian's thoughts after interview, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 6, Item 4 Penney, Alexandra, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 9 Phillips, Carol, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 6, Item 5 Pittman, Bob, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 8 Pittman, Sandy, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 10 Rae, Feona, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 8 Rauschenberg, Robert and Jasper Johns, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 2 Rauschenberg, Robert, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 11 Raynor, Billy, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 12 Rezzori, Grecia von, 1989 February 15 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 13 Rice, Linda, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 14 Rochelle, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 15-16 Rose, Barbara, 1990 March 27 2 Sound cassettes
Box 10, Item 1 Rosenfeld, Isadore, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 17 Rosenthal, Mark, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 11, Item 1-4 Rothenberg, Susan, 1989-1990
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4 Sound cassettes
Box 7, Item 1 Rubin, Bill, 1989 December 11 1 Sound cassette
Box 8, Item 11 Rubin, Bill, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 7, Item 2 Rubin, Larry, 1988 November 14 1 Sound cassette
Box 10, Item 7 Rubin, Laurie and Lynn, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 11, Item 5-7 Rubin, Nancy, undated 3 Sound cassettes
Box 11, Item 8-11 Salle, David, 1992 4 Sound cassettes
Box 8, Item 12-13 Saville, Jenny, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 11, Item 12-14 Saville, Jenny, undated 3 Sound cassettes
Box 11, Item 15-18 Schnabel, Julian, undated 4 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 1-3 Schnabel, Julian, undated 3 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 2-3 Schnabel, Olatz, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 4 Sereny, Gitta, 1992 March 21 1 Sound cassette
Box 12, Item 5-6 Serra, Richard, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 7, Item 17 Simpson, Babs, 1988 November 16 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 8 Sinclaire, Paul, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 9, Item 1 Starn, Doug, undated
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1 Sound cassette
Box 12, Item 7-9 Smith, Kiki, 1994 3 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 10 Tchnernichova, Elena, 1990 April 13 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 2 Train, Susan, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 12, Item 11-12 Train, Simone and Susan, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 13-16 Taaffe, Philip, undated 4 Sound cassettes
Box 12, Item 17 Twombly, Cy, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 1-2 Twombly, Cy, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 13, Item 3 Udell, Rochelle, 1989 April 13 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 11 Vreeland, Diana, 1988 December 2 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 3 Fried, Micheline, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 4 Wells, Linda, 1991 May 23 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 5-6 Winsor, Jackie, undated 2 Sound cassettes
Box 13, Item 7 Wintour, Anna, 1989-1990 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 2 Winkler, Paul, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 1, Item 6 Wojnarowicz, David, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 5, Item 9 Wojnarowicz, David, undated
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1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 8 Wojnarowicz, David, undated 1 Sound cassette
Box 13, Item 9-11 Unidentified, circa 1990 3 Sound cassettes
1.2: Interview Transcripts, circa 1988-1992 Arrangement: Transcripts of Alexander Liberman interviews are arranged first followed by transcripts of interviews with others in an alphabetical arrangement. Researchers should note that not all sound recordings have a corresponding transcript.
Box 14, Folder 1-8 Alexander Liberman Interviews, Transcript (pg. 1-1239), 1988-1992
Box 14, Folder 9 Alexander Liberman Interviews, Transcripts (without pagination), circa 1988-1992
Box 14, Folder 10 List of Interviews, Notes, and Excerpts, circa 1988-1992
Box 14, Folder 11 Alloway, Lawrence, undated
Box 14, Folder 12 Avedon, Richard "Dick", 1990
Box 14, Folder 13 Penelope Tree and David Ross on Richard Avedon, 1993, undated
Box 14, Folder 14 Berner, Rosamond, undated
Box 14, Folder 15 Brodosky, Joseph, 1990
Box 14, Folder 16 Brown, Tina, 1990
Box 14, Folder 17 Cahan, Bill, 1989
Box 14, Folder 18 Conde Nast, Conversations with a Sculptor, undated
Box 14, Folder 19 De Croisset, Ethel, undated
Box 14, Folder 20 De la Renta, Oscar, 1991
Box 14, Folder 21 Demontezemolo, Cathy, undated
Box 14, Folder 22 Donovan, Carrie, 1991
Box 14, Folder 23 Emmerich, Andre, undated
Box 14, Folder 24 Evans, Harry, 1989
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Box 14, Folder 25 Fried, Micheline, 1989
Box 14, Folder 26 Gersh, Gloria, undated
Box 14, Folder 27 Gratz, Donald, 1989
Box 14, Folder 28 Gray, Cleve, undated
Box 14, Folder 29 Gray, Francine, 1988
Box 14, Folder 30 Green, Pat, 1988
Box 14, Folder 31 Gregory, Alexis, 1989
Box 14, Folder 32 Gross, Amy, 1988
Box 14, Folder 33 Guillaume, Marcel, 1988
Box 14, Folder 34 Gunther, Jane, 1990
Box 14, Folder 35 Hopps, Walter, undated
Box 14, Folder 36 Hughes, Bob, 1990
Box 14, Folder 37 Kasper, Eddie, 1989
Box 14, Folder 38 Kissinger, Henry, undated
Box 14, Folder 39 Kramer, Hilton, undated
Box 14, Folder 40 Layman, Bill, 1989
Box 14, Folder 41 Lerman, Leo, undated
Box 14, Folder 42 Leser, Bernie, undated
Box 14, Folder 43 Leval, Beatrice, 1988
Box 14, Folder 44 Liberman, Bill, 1990
Box 14, Folder 45 Lidovar, 1989
Box 14, Folder 46 Lloyd, Kate, undated
Box 14, Folder 47 Mirabella, Grace, undated
Box 14, Folder 48 Moses, Mabel, 1989
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Box 14, Folder 49 Nobokov, Dominique, undated
Box 14, Folder 50 Newhouse, Si, 1989
Box 14, Folder 51 Novogrod, Nancy, 1989
Box 14, Folder 52 Patcevitch, Iva, undated
Box 14, Folder 53 Penn, Irving; Alexander Liberman on Penn, circa 1988-1990
Box 14, Folder 54 Penney, Alexandra, undated
Box 14, Folder 55 Phillips, Carol, undated
Box 14, Folder 56 Raynor, Billy, undated
Box 14, Folder 57 Rezzori, Gregor von, undated
Box 14, Folder 58 Rice, Linda, undated
Box 14, Folder 59 Richardson, John, 1990
Box 14, Folder 60 Rose, Barbara, 1990
Box 14, Folder 61 Rosenfeld, Dr. Isadore, undated
Box 14, Folder 62 Rubin, Bill, 1989
Box 14, Folder 63 Ruston, Perry, undated
Box 14, Folder 64 Salem, Daniel, undated
Box 14, Folder 65 Sereny, Gitta, undated
Box 14, Folder 66 Simpson, Babs, 1988
Box 14, Folder 67 Snowdon, Lord, or Anthony Armstrong-Jones, circa 1988
Box 14, Folder 68 Stern, Luda, 1992
Box 15, Folder 1 Sturm, Hilda, 1989
Box 15, Folder 2 Tchernichova, Elena, 1990
Box 15, Folder 3 Train, Susan, 1989
Box 15, Folder 4 Udell, Rochelle, 1989
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Box 15, Folder 5 Ungless, Derek, undated
Box 15, Folder 6 Vreeland, Diana, 1988
Box 15, Folder 7 Van Zandt, Pam, 1989
Box 15, Folder 8 Wells, Linda, 1991
Box 15, Folder 9 Wintour, Anna, 1989
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Series 2: Research Files, 1927-1999
1.2 Linear feet (Box 15; Hol 16) Scope and Research files include Liberman's school records, citizenship and migration papers, and Contents: correspondence with family and freinds as well as notable individuals such as Irving Penn, Salvador Dali, Yves Saint Laurent, and Robert Motherwell. This series also contains articles and clippings related to Liberman, fashion, artists and art history, Russian-Americans, Conde Nast Publications, and Vogue. A majority of the files contain notes and annotations made by Kazanjian and Tomkins. Arrangement: This series contains folders originally created by Kazanjian and Tomkins; the contents of each folder were kept in the original order.
Box 15, Folder 10 Alexander Liberman, Life Chronology, undated
Box 15, Folder Alexander Liberman, Biographical File, circa 1927-1992 11-12
Box 15, Folder 13 Alexander Liberman, Personal Life, 1940s-1950s, circa 1940-1992
Box 15, Folder 14 Alexander Liberman, Personal Life, 1950s-1960s, circa 1950-1992
Box 15, Folder 15 Alexander Liberman's Art, 1960s, circa 1960-1969
Box 15, Folder 16 Alexander Liberman, Black Paintings (Photographs), circa 1964-1965
Box 15, Folder 17 Miscellaneous, 1970s, circa 1970-1979
Box 15, Folder 18 Alexander Liberman, 1980s, circa 1980-1989
Box 15, Folder Miscellaneous, 1990s, circa 1990-1999 19-20
Box 15, Folder 21 Alexander Liberman Interviews, 1946-1988
Box 15, Folder 22 Alexander Liberman, Artist in His Studio, circa 1954-1992
Box 15, Folder 23 Alexander Liberman, The Artist and His Craft (unpublished), circa 1963-1964
Box 15, Folder 24 Alexander Liberman Correspondence, Family, circa 1939-1945
Box 15, Folder 25 Alexander Liberman Correspondence, Contemporaries, circa 1959-1992
Box 15, Folder 26 Alexander Liberman Correspondence, Salvador Dali, 1944-1964
Box 15, Folder 27 Alexander Liberman, Parents, circa 1945-1965
Box 15, Folder Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix Liberman, circa 1940-1992 28-29
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Box 15, Folder 30 Francine du Plessix Gray, circa 1941-1992
Box 15, Folder 31 Conde Nast, 1970s, circa 1970-1979
Box 15, Folder 32 Conde Nast, 1980s, circa 1980-1989
Box 15, Folder 33 Vogue, 1940-1950, circa 1940-1992
Box 15, Folder 34 Vogue, 1950-1960, circa 1949-1992
Box 16, Folder 1 Vogue, 1960s, circa 1960-1992
Box 16, Folder 2 Newhouse, 1976-1992
Box 16, Folder 3 Irvin Penn, circa 1944-1992 Notes: Included in this file are two letters Irving Penn wrote to Liberman while Penn was stationed in Europe during World War II.
Box 16, Folder 4 Diana Vreeland, 1960s, circa 1960-1992
Box 16, Folder 5 Art History, Clippings, circa 1977-1998
Box 16, Folder 6 Fashion, circa 1979-1992
Box 16, Folder 7 Photographers, Avedon, Parks, and others, circa 1958-1993
Box 16, Folder 8 White Russians (20th C. Russian Emigration), circa 1970-1992
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Page 21 of 22 Series 3: Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins research materials on Alexander Liberman AAA.kazadodi
Series 3: Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman, circa 1988-1992
7 Folders (Hol 16; Pam 17) Scope and This series contains book outlines, chapter drafts and notes, and an edited manuscript of Contents: Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman.
Box 16, Folder 9 Alexander Liberman and Dodie Kazanjian Book Agreement, 1988
Box 16, Folder 10 Book Notes and Miscellaneous Material, circa 1988-1992
Box 16, Folder 11 Book Outline (draft), undated
Box 16, Folder 12 Chapter One, Draft and Notes, circa 1992
Box 17, Folder 1-3 Manuscript, circa 1992
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