Episode

The book business

Barbara Burn, who edits art books for Viking Press in New York City, discusses the values and practices of the art book publishing world. Interview by Clare Spark in New York City. Technical production by Stephan Baldwin.

A conversation with artist Miriam Schapiro

Artist and feminist educator Miriam Schapiro (1923 - ) reconstructs her development as a painter, linking the changes in her imagery to her psychological history and involvement in the women's movement. Schapiro's memoir reveals how the introduction of feminism expanded, rather than restricted, the possibilities of growth and experience in her life and art. Produced by Clare Spark.

Tense : in limbo / Leon Golub and Nancy Spero interviewed by Clare Spark

Activist artists Leon Golub (1922-2004) and Nancy Spero (1926-2009) discuss how their political attitudes are embodied in their imagery, particularly themes of violence, dismemberment and detachment. Interviewed by Clare Spark. Contains sensitive language.

Hyphenated expletives need not apply / Judith Bernstein and Carl Baldwin ; interviewed by Clare Spark.

Discussion of artists and of censorship with artist Judith Bernstein (1942 - ), whose giant, black, furry screw was recently censored at the Philadelphia Civic Center, and Carl Baldwin (? - 2004), an art historian and censorship activist. This program was produced with the partial support of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, a federal agency. Contains sensitive language.

Pensamientos femeninos

The perspective of five Chicanas in today's movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo, linguistics major at UCLA and associate editor of the first Chicana magazine, entitled Encuentro Femenil; Francisca Flores, director of the Chicana Service Action Center, which provides employment and job training; Alicia Escalante, founder of and consultant to the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization; Ev

Let 'em eat kitsch

A broad collage portrait of American society, made up of music, improvisations and speeches examining who makes popular taste. Includes the voices of Cole Porter, Orson Welles, Sophie Tucker, Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, Ethel Waters and others.

Women in the economy / presented by Lauri Helmbold.

Ramparts Report, the weekly program of news and current happenings, brought to you by the staff of Ramparts Magazine. Women in the Economy presented by Lauri Helmbold of the New College of San Jose State University. She originally presented this material in San Francisco during a weekend conference at Liberation School, March 23, 1974.

Womantruth / Megan Terry ; produced by Clare Spark.

Originally titled "Woman Fibbers." A funny and fast-moving collage of songs, poetry and prose readings built around an interview with feminist playwright Megan Terry, to expose the myth that women are deceitful and need a man to reveal them to themselves.

Clare Spark's New York diary from December 1973

Clare Spark, producer, introduces this episode: "...the goal I have set for this series, to relate form, ideology and consciousness, in so clear and convincing a fashion, as to move somebody, somewhere, somehow. Since I believe criticism begins at home, in this first program (of 1973), I offer you an expose of my own predilections, this being the year of the intimate memoir.

Reflecciones de la Raza: September 8, 1973

Aircheck for "Reflecciones de la Raza", hosted by a woman (identity unknown), likely broadcast on September 8, 1973. Program begins with a report on the grape strike from Dan Sudran, Chairperson of the United Farm Workers, San Francisco Chapter. He discusses the boycotts, numbers of workers jailed, costs, law enforcement during the strike.

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