Herb & Dorothy

UN FILM DE Megumi Sasaki

A real-life fairy tale.
- Boston Herald
a warm profile of the Vogels and their 4,000-plus-piece holdings of minimalist and conceptual art.
- Eddie Cockrell, Variety

synopsis

HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, Herb and Dorothy Vogel quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, and living on Dorothy's paycheck alone, they continued collecting artworks guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists. Their circle includes: Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir,and Lucio Pozzi.

Date de sortie

Langue originale: English
Genre: Documentary
Durée: 87 min.
Année: 2008

Crédits

Un film de
Megumi Sasaki