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Architecture
- French Gothic masterpieces : the cathedrals
- Call Number: NA5543 .F746 1994
Publication information: New York, NY : Academic and Entertainment Video Corp ; Glenview, IL : Crystal Productions, c1994
Physical description: 1 videocassette (25 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
Description: Visits the cathedrals of Notre Dame, Chartres, Amiens, Reims, and Sainte Chapelle to examine the unique architectural style of pre-modern France, born out of an urge for religious and civic rejuvenation during the Middle Ages. Also examines the technical innovations of French Gothic architecture, as well as the cultural, social, economic changes that gave birth to this style
Art History
- Simon Schama's Power of art
- Call Number: NX454.5.R4 R435 2007
Publication information: [London] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]
Physical description: 3 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and brothels of Provence; the carnage of civil war Spain; and 1950s New York, caught between Cold War jitters and Manhattan glitter. In each place, a great artist is backed into a corner, facing a crisis, given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time
Contents: [Vol. 1]: Caravaggio -- Bernini -- Rembrandt -- [Vol. 2]: David -- Turner -- Van Gogh -- [Vol. 3]: Picasso -- Rothko
Antiquities
Modern
- Aspects of minimalism
- Call Number: N6494.M5 A76 1996
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Inner-Tube Video, c1996
Physical description: 1 videodisc (28 min.) : sd, col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: Discusses the influences of certain artists on minimalism. Shows works by Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Richard Serra, John McCracken, and Richard Nonas. Includes interviews with Mel Bochner, John McCracken, Richard Nonas, and art historian/critic Phyllis Tuchman
- Realism : the artistic form of the truth
- Call Number: NX454.5.R4 R435 2007
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2007
Physical description: 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Description: It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism--a widespread artistic movement, born in the latter half of the 19th century, which rejected pretense, distortion, and sentimentality. Incorporating interviews with art historians and literary scholars, the program explores the sociopolitical origins of the phenomenon in the 1848 Revolution in France and the concurrent wave of industrialization that swept Europe and America. Examines realism in the work of literary writers, and early photographers and filmmakers, as well as the first stirrings of feminism
Contents: Introduction.-- Realism vs. Romanticism.-- Realism and Science.-- The birth of naturalism.-- Death, women and art.-- American Realism.-- 20th century realism.-- The future of realism
Art - Miscellany
- Everyday creativity
- Call Number: BF408 .E94 1999a
Publication information: St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Star Thrower, 1999
Physical description: 1 videodisc (20 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Description: Uses inspirational stories, memorable locations and Jones' vivid photography to apply simple yet powerful creativity techniques to all aspects of life
- Making art
- Call Number: N7430 .M325 2005
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Description: Provides rare behind-the-scenes experiences. Introduces art elements, such as color and perspective; demonstrates artistic techniques ranging from sculpture to printmaking; and studies conservation issues related to art objects.
Contents: Seeing color: object, light, observer (27 min.) -- Masters of illusion (30 min.) -- Art + science = conservation (19 min.) -- Introduction to sculpture (11 min.) -- James McNeill Whistler: his etchings (22 min.) -- Roy Lichtenstein: the art of the graphic image (20 min.)
- Paul Conrad, drawing fire
- Call Number: NC1429.C66 P385 2006
Publication information: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Home Video, 2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: "Celebrates the career of this legendary Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist"--Container
Ceramics
- Handbuilt pottery
- Call Number: TT920 .H356 2006
Publication information: Glenview, IL : Crystal Productions, [2006]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (ca. 27 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 reference guide (13 p. ; 18 cm.)
Description: This program introduces handbuilt pottery techniques, demonstrating coil, hard slab, press molds
Glass / Textiles / Paper
Jewelry
Sculpture
Painting
General
American
Latin American
European
- Late 19th-century European art
- Call Number: N6757 .L384 2005
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (137 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Description: The final decades of the nineteenth century witnessed the development of new art forms and styles as a reaction to the academic traditions that had prevailed for over a century. Contains four video presentations about 19th-century European painters and related art movements
Contents: Paul Gauguin: te oviri rerioa (the savage dream) (45 min.) -- Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre (30 min.) -- Édouard Vuillard, 1868-1940 (30 min.) -- Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 (32 min.)
- Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre
- Call Number: N6853 .T6 T685 2005
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, 2005
Physical description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 1/2 in
Description: This film traces the relationship between the aristocratic painter and the avant-garde culture of the Montmartre neighborhood, using works of art by Lautrec and his colleagues, rare archival footage, and sound recordings and interviews
- Paul Klee
- Call Number: N6888.K55 P385 1992
Publication information: New York : Academic and Entertainment Video, 1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (25 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
Description: Presents the most relevant aspects of Paul Klee's work by analyzing some of his masterpieces. Shows, through the variety of styles and media Klee used, the kind of influence he has had on western arts both during his time and generations to come.
- European art
- Call Number: ND454 .N876 2005
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (211 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: Among outstanding European paintings at the National Gallery of Art are Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and masterworks by Bellini, Raphael, Vermeer, and Van Dyck. Five programs look at each of these artists and their works; a sixth introduces the European painting collection.--Container
Contents: Introduction to European art from the National Gallery of Art (30 min.) -- The feast of the gods (27 min.) -- Ginevra's story (58 min.) -- Raphael and the American collector (18 min.) -- Vermeer: master of light (57 min.) -- Anthony van Dyck (21 min.)
Asian
Photography and Video Art
- The body as matrix : Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle
- Call Number: NX454.5.R4 R435 2007
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: "With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolves. In this program, Barney, Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector, and others deconstruct the Cycle's filming and subsequent translation into sculptural installations."--Case
- Shirin Neshat : the woman moves
- Call Number: N6494.V53 .S457 2004
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (42 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in
Description: An acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and video artist, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat addresses the complex forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world and explores the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's experiences
Contents: Featured works: Shadow under the web -- Turbulent -- Soliloquy -- Rapture -- Fervor -- The women of Allah
- William Kentridge : drawing the passing
- Call Number: N6494.V53 .S457 2004
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005
Physical description: 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: Kentridge discusses the creative process of making his animated films, drawings, and theatre work. Shows him in the final stages of animating "Stereoscope" and includes excerpts from various works. In his artistic works he has investigated the diseased, amnesiac consciousness of late and post-apartheid South Africa
- Gary Hill : I believe it is an image
- Call Number: N6496.V53 G379 2004
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004
Physical description: 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description: In this program video artist Gary Hill uses a number of his pieces to investigate otherness and ambiguity, dislocation of the senses, the boundary between words and comprehension, the physicality of text, and figurative interactivity
Contents: Featured works: Wall piece -- Crossbow -- Liminal objects -- Reflex chamber -- Conundrum -- Remarks on color -- Suspension of disbelief -- I believe it is an image in light of the other -- Why do things get in a muddle? (Come on Petunia) -- CRUX -- Primarily speaking -- Mediations
6 September 2007
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