Oral history interview with George Segal, 1978.

Biographical Note

Sculptor.

Scope and Contents

Reaction to abstract expressionism; move to sculpting and use of plaster for life castings; attitudes to public art in United States; work on Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Subjects

• Abstract expressionism.
• Art criticism.
• Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Monuments--Washington (D.C.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sculptors--Interviews.
• Sculpture.
• Segal, George, 1924-2000--Interviews.