The Artist’s Studio: Meyer Schapiro Visits George Segal

1979 / 28 min. / color
Directed by Michael Blackwood

Led by Meyer Schapiro and George Segal, The Artist’s Studio gifts us with an intimate conversation between the art historian and the artist as they discuss Segal’s plaster sculptures in relation to the European tradition and to contemporaries, from Giotto to Abstract Expressionism. Focusing on process, material, color and theory Schapiro and Segal examine the artist’s work and the complex thought behind his acclaimed human casts.