| LC control no. | nr 96029550 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Blumenthal, Lyn |
| Birth date | 1949 |
| Death date | 1988-07-21 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Video art |
| Affiliation | Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Artists |
| Found in | Rackstraw Downes [VR], 1980: credits (Lyn Blumenthal) Wikipedia, October 15, 2018 (Lyn Blumenthal; Lyn Blumenthal (1949-1988) was an American video artist and writer; she and Kate Horsfield founded the Video Data Bank in 1976; Blumenthal was born in 1949 in Chicago, Illinois; in 1976, while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she and Horsfield founded the Video Data Bank to conserve their taped interviews with video artists; she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1976; in the 1980s Blumenthal was examining the politics of media; her 1984 video Arcade, in collaboration with Carole Ann Klonarides and the painter Ed Paschke, was included in the 1989 touring exhibition Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985; Blumenthal died of a heart attack on July 21, 1988, in Manhattan, New York City; in her honor the Video Data Bank created the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund to support artists in the media arts) |
| Not found in | WW of Amer. women, 1995-1996; WW in Amer. art, 1991-1992; Dunford, P. Biog. dict. of women artists in Europe and Amer. fr. 1850 |
| Associated language | eng |
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