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ID: 500116235 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500116235			Record Type: Person

Conner, Bruce (American assemblage artist and filmmaker, 1933-2008)

Note: American artist active in San Francisco was first known for his assemblages made of discarded and seemingly decaying objects. He studied at Wichita University and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln where he received a BFA 1956. He also studied at Brooklyn Art School, and the University of Colorado. He was a prolific filmmaker, and was a pioneer in the use of "found footage." Most of his films are constructed from images shot by others and cut to new soundtracks, including popular or underground music. His film "Crossroads" was made entirely with official footage shot of a hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini Atoll set to a soundtrack by Terry Riley. Many of his films are considered precursors to what would become the music video genre. In the 1960s, Conner began making highly detailed ink drawings, referred to as the Mandala Series. In the 1970s and 1980s, concurrent with his filmmaking, he would create two-dimensional collages from 18th and 19th century etchings. He created large-scale photograms of human figures, and a series of black and white photographs documenting underground music in San Francisco during the late 1970s. His later work often incorporated obsessively created inkblots on paper, made with an accordion fold technique.

Names:
	Conner, Bruce (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Conner, Bruce (Dutch-P,NA)
	Bruce Conner (V,display)
	Conner, Bruce G. (V)
	Bruce G. Conner (V)
	Conner, Bruce Guldner (V)
	Feather, Emily (V P)
	Emily Feather (U)
	קונר, ברוס (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	sculptor
	assemblage artist
	collagist
	draftsman
	mixed-media artist
	filmmaker
	photographer
	cinematographer
	painter

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: McPherson (McPherson county, Kansas, United States) (inhabited place) Died: San Francisco (San Francisco county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		San Francisco (San Francisco county, California, United States) (inhabited place)
	exhibition:		at the Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1997 New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

collaborated with ....	DeFeo, Jay
................................	(American painter and photographer, 1929-1989) [500112022]

friend of ....	McClure, Michael
................	(American poet, born 1932) [500352754]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Conner, Bruce (I)

Biographies:

(American assemblage artist and filmmaker, 1933-2008) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, filmmaker, b.1933) ..... [BHA]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, b.1933) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, born 1933) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, born 1933) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, 1933-2008) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(Unknown artist) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1933-2008) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1933-2008) ..... [IMJ]
(American sculptor, 1933-2008) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

קונר, ברוס ........	[IMJ]
....................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Bruce Conner ........	[GRISC Preferred, GRL, MoMA, VP]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2004M13; 2004M13

Bruce G. Conner ........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
...............................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Conner, Bruce ........	[BHA Preferred, GRISC, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	GRI Library, author records (1998-)
............................	GRI Special Collections Finding Aids databases (1980-) 2009M5
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................	Johnson, Bruce Conner, New York Times (2008)
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) no 92000997
............................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) 92000997
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 17969
............................	Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1997) 181

Conner, Bruce G. ........	[CL-Courtauld Preferred, WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.................................	Witt Computer Index database
.................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Conner, Bruce Guldner ........	[VP]
...........................................	Ask Art [online] (2003) Accessed 09/25/03
...........................................	Johnson, Bruce Conner, New York Times (2008)

Emily Feather ........	[MoMA Preferred]
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)

Feather, Emily ........	[MoMA, VP]
..............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..............................	Artnet News [online] obit.


Note:
English	..........	[CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Bénézit Dictionary of Artists: English Edition (2006) 3: 1308
	..........	Grove Art Online (2008-) accessed 8 July 2008
	..........	Johnson, Bruce Conner, New York Times (2008) obit.

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