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Tudor and Stuart London; court and commons, 1500-1666 

Call Number: DA680 .T83 1991
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (20 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Examines the history of the city of London from Henry VII through the death of Charles I to the Great Fire of 1666. Discusses the uses of the dungeons in the Tower, the niceties of the private execution ground on the Tower Green, the changes in London's appearance with the advent of Tudor houses and Elizabethan dress and jewelry, and the plague of 1665

The Spirit of the Renaissance 

Call Number: DG737.4 .S6 1971
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1971
Physical description: 1 videocassette (31 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 guide
Description: Explores the intellectual and artistic climate of Florence during the 14th and 15th centuries and scenes from the daily life of a contemporary Florentine

Mysteries of Asia 

Call Number: DS11 .M9 2000
Publication information: Seattle, WA : Unapix Home Entertainment [distributor], [2000]
Physical description: 3 videocassettes (156 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: 1. The lost temples of India -- 2. Jewels in the jungle -- 3. Secrets of the Great Wall
Description: Examines 1,000-year-old temple complexes in Southern India, adorned with intricate and beautiful sculptures, and virtually unknown and unvisited by Western tourists (1st). Pursues myths and facts about the actual builders of Angkor in Cambodia (2nd). 20 walls built over the course of 2,000 years form the Great Wall of China, built not only to keep the barbarians out but also to keep the Chinese in (3rd)

The Three worlds of Bali 

Call Number: DS 632 .B25 T4 1988
Publication information: [S.l.] : PBS Video [distributor], c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Anthropologist Steve Lansing guides the viewer on an exploration of the Indonesian island of Bali, which is coming to terms with the technological West. The Balinese make artistic offerings of music, dance, poetry, and even food in order to maintain the delicate balance between the world they live in, the world of the gods, and the world of the demons

China; dynasties of power 

Call Number: DS715 .C4 1995
Publication information: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Video, c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (48 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Studies the dynasties of power from the 2nd century B.C. through the rise of the first emperor to discover the achievements of ancient China. While uniting a vast land the Chinese built the 2,600-mile Great Wall, invented paper, printing, the compass and the world's first system of justice

Mysterious mummies of China 

Call Number: DS719 .M97 1998
Publication information: South Burlington, VT : WGBH Boston Video [distributor], c1998
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Mummies found in the Takla Makan Desert in China raise the question that European contact may have occurred some 1,000 years earlier than previously realized

China's cosmopolitan age; the Tang, 618-907 

Call Number: DS 749.3 .C4 1992
Publication information: Burlington, Vt. : Annenberg/CPB [Project], c1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents an overview of China's Tʻang dynasty, its history, civilization, arts, and culture, A.D. 618-907

The Forbidden City 

Call Number: DS795 .F6 1987
Publication information: [United States] : Monterey Home Video : Distributed by Fries Home Video, [1987]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (approx. 60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Explores the history and culture of China as reflected in the art and architectural treasures of the Forbidden City

Han-Gul, Sukulam, Korea's folk painting, Korean treasures 

Call Number: DS902.4 .H3 1988x
Publication information: Seoul, Korea : Korea Film Production, [ca. 1988]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Introduces the Korean alphabet. Shows how it was invented and how it is different from Chinese and Japanese (1st work). Tours Sukulam Shrine, which holds the most famous and outstanding Buddha in Korea (2nd work). Examines different kinds of Korean folk painting, dealing with long life, good luck, and protection from evil (3rd work). Traces various Korean cultural treasures, from the earliest age to modern times, through the examination of excavated items (4th work)

Korea's culture 

Call Number: DS904 .K68 1995
Publication information: [Seoul?] : The Corp., [199-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (15 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A brief introduction to the traditional and contemporary arts and culture of Korea. Includes traditional ceremonies

The spirit of the mask 

Call Number: E 78 .N78 S6 1992
Publication information: Bethesda, MD : Atlas Video, 1993
Physical description: 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: This documentary explores the spiritual and psychological powers of the masks used by Northwest Coast native peoples. It features dramatic, rarely-seen ceremonies as well as commentary by important Indian spiritual leaders, and relates how these traditions were historically repressed by Christian Europeans. The program also considers the role of masks in other cultures and examines the meaning of tribal art both to indigenous cultures and to the contemporary West

Art and recreation in Latin America 

Call Number: F1408.3 .A78 1995
Publication information: [New York] : Video Knowledge, Inc, c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (22 min., 10 sec.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents games Latin American people play and the art and architecture they enjoy. Focuses on the Spanish and Indian influences still found today

The Art of living 

Call Number: GN380 .M5 1992, pt. 5
Publication information: Alexandria, VA : PBS Video [distributor], 1992
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 action & resource guide + 1 teacher's reference booklet + 8 student activity sheets + 1 viewer's guide
Description: In tribal cultures, views of life and death are traditionally expressed in everyday dances, clothes, sculptures, paintings, etc. Travel to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace. Meet a North American artist who shows us his way of connecting his art to the meaning of life and death

The Art Institute, a self-portrait 

Call Number: N530 .A95 2000
Publication information: [1973?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: A look at the activities of the Art Institute of Chicago and a visual survey of the Renoir Exhibition held at the Museum. Includes United States Steel commercials

Treasures of the Art Institute 

Call Number: N530 .T742 2001
Publication information: Chicago : WTTW-TV, c2001
Physical description: 1 videocassette (36 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Introduces viewers to many of the Art Institute's art pieces and collections

Masterpieces of the Met 

Call Number: N610 .M47 1988
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill.] : Home Vision, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Tour of 30 of the museum's masterpieces. Chosen works cover 5000 years of world civilization and demonstrate the scope of the Metropolitan's collection

Glories of medieval art; the Cloisters 

Call Number: N611.C6 G5 1989
Publication information: [Concord, Mass.] : Home Vision, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The director of the Metropolitan Museum escorts viewers through an ensemble of spaces and gardens that evoke the medieval period at New York's famous museum

Adventures in art 

Call Number: N 856 .A5132 1979
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : The Gallery, c1979
Physical description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Julie Harris discusses color, composition, light and shade, along with pertinent historical facts about the artists and works shown in the National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art; a treasury of masterpieces 

Call Number: N856 .N28 1984
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : VPI/AC Video, 1984, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (50 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The treasures of the Gallery are explored in this two-part program hosted by Gallery director J. Carter Brown. Part one is a concise history of the Gallery, and part two is a guided tour of some of its finest works

The quiet collector; Andrew W. Mellon remembered 

Call Number: N 856 .Q8 1983
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Dramatizes Mellon's life as a collector his single-minded pursuit of the finest works by such artists as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Titian, and Raphael and his dedication to his vision of an art gallery for the American people

Art in nature; the Clark inside and out 

Call Number: N867 .A828 2005
Publication information: Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2005
Physical description: 123 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 26 cm. + 1 DVD (sd., col. 4 3/4 in.)

La Ville Louvre; Louvre City un film 

Call Number: N2030 .V5 1991
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Britannica, [1991], c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents a behind-the-scenes view of the Louvre, revealing its reserve collections, studio work rooms, and rooms empty in preparation for the hanging and display of canvases

Les musees du Vatican 

Call Number: N2940 .T6 1983
Publication information: [S.l.] : Distributed by Dorset Video, c1983
Physical description: 1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The tour includes the Vatican's galleries (works by Michelangelo, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti, Melozzo da Forli, and others), the Raphael frescoes in the papal apartments, and the Sistine Chapel

Vatican City; art & glory 

Call Number: N 2940 .V3 1994
Publication information: New York, NY : View Video, c1994
Physical description: 1 videocassette (45 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents the Vatican's priceless treasures through the eyes of its artists, poets and architects. Includes views of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, the Pieta, and the dome of St. Peter's Church Bernini's canopy St. Peter's square and the museums which hold Raphael's School of Athens and the Apollo Belvidere

The Hermitage; a Russian odyssey 

Call Number: N3350 .H47 1994
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Public Media Home Vision, c1994
Physical description: 3 videocassettes (162 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 guide
Contents: 1. Catherine the Great -- 2. Tyrants and heroes -- 3. From czars to commissars
Description: A tour of The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, home of one of the world's great art collections

Medieval art and music 

Call Number: N5970 .M4 1986x
Publication information: Pleasantville, N.Y. : Educational Audio Visual, 1986
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (35 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 program notes + 4 worksheets
Description: Following an on-camera introduction by Roya Megnot, shows how the art, architecture, and music of the medieval period were governed by the church and created in its service. Part one deals with the beginnings of illumination and Romanesque architecture. Part two focuses on the Gothic period and includes the rise of Gothic architecture, the beginnings of secularism in art, and the development of polyphony in music

Islamic art 

Call Number: N6260 .I752 2002
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (32 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Discusses the architecture and sculpture of mosques and Koranic schools, the illumination and calligraphy of sacred texts, music, the art of the garden, and the influence of the abstract arabesque on Western art

The early Renaissance 

Call Number: N6371 .E3 1989
Publication information: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: pt. 1. The Renaissance in Italy, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Ghiberti, and Botticelli -- pt. 2. Flemish masters including Van Eyck and Grünewald
Description: Covers the revival and reinterpretation of the classical tradition in the works of Florentine artists Masaccio, Donatello and Ghiberti. Discusses how these artists exemplify the merging of Christian and humanistic values. Examines the realism of Jan van Eyck and the spiritual crisis of northern Europe as revealed in Grunewald's Isenheim altarpiece. Also discusses the spirit of the Renaissance as reflected in Albrecht Durer's work

The High Renaissance 

Call Number: N6371 .H5 1989
Publication information: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: pt. 1. Da Vinci, Michelango and Raphael -- pt. 2. Tintoretto, Titan and Palladio
Description: Shows the extraordinary talent of DaVinci, Michelangelo and Raphael working in a variety of media. Shows how the Venetians readapted the classical style with a theatrical flourish. Contrasts Titian's nudes with Tintoretto's Last Supper

Realms of light; The Baroque 

Call Number: N6415.B3 R4 1989
Publication information: Santa Barbara, CA : Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: pt. 1. Caravaggio and Bernini -- pt. 2. Velázquez and Rembrandt
Description: Examines the divergent themes of the baroque period, including a new emotional appeal as seen in Bernini's The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, Caravaggio's naturalism, Velasquez's multilayered works, and the rise of bourgeois values as seen in Rembrandt's works. Features experts Irving Lavin and Simon Schama

An age of reason, an age of passion 

Call Number: N6420 .A4 1989
Publication information: Santa Barbara, CA : Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: pt. 1. Rococo style and Rationalism -- pt. 2. Romantic painters, Goya, Géricault and Delacroix
Description: Covers the transition from the Rococo period to Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Relates stylistic changes to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic ward. Covers the work of David, Géricault, Turner, Delacroix, and Goya. Features experts Pierre Rosenberg and Robin Middleton

Art America 

Call Number: N6505 .A78 1980
Publication information: Springfield, VA : CTI, [198-?], c1975
Physical description: 20 videocassettes (600 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 study guide (xii, 120 leaves 28 cm.)
Contents: no. 1. In search of a visual tradition -- no. 2. Artisans to artists -- no. 3. America's old masters -- no. 4. Artists of the young Republic -- no. 5. Preserving the landscape -- no. 6. Exploring the wilderness -- no. 7. Creation of a self-image -- no. 8. Visionaries -- no. 9. The expatriates -- no. 10. The epic of the common man -- no. 11. The Columbian Exposition -- no. 12. The melting pot -- no. 13. The Armory Show -- no. 14. America achieves an avant-garde -- no. 15. Politics and art between the wars -- no. 16. Art for the masses -- no. 17. Abstract expressionism -- no. 18. The Fifties -- no. 19. The Sixties -- no. 20. Art America 200

New world visions; American art and the Metropolitan Museum 

Call Number: N6505 .N4 1983
Publication information: [S.l.] : Home Vision [distributor], c1983
Physical description: 2 videocassettes (116 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: pt. 1. 1650-1850 -- pt. 2. 1850-1914
Description: Surveys American art from 1650-1914 using the collection of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a point of departure

A history of European art 

Call Number: N6750 .K567 2005
Publication information: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2005
Physical description: 8 videodiscs (ca.1440 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + 4 course guidebooks (22 cm.)
Contents: Pt. 1. Disc 1. Lectures 1-6. Approaches to European art -- Carolingian and Ottonian art -- Romanesque sculpture and architecture -- Gothic art in France -- Gothic art in Germany and Italy -- Giotto and the Arena Chapel, Pt. 1 -- Pt. 1. Disc 2. Lectures 7-12. Giotto and the Arena Chapel, Pt. 2. -- Duccio and the Maestà -- Sienese art in the 14th century -- The Black Death and the international style -- Early Renaissance sculpture in Florence -- Early Renaissance architecture in Florence;Pt. 2. Disc 3. Lectures 13-18. Masaccio and Early Renaissance painting -- Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance art -- Northern Renaissance altarpieces -- Piero della Francesca in Arezzo -- Sandro Botticelli -- Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini -- Pt. 2. Disc 4. Lectures 19-24. High Renaissance painting in Venice -- The High Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci -- The High Renaissance, Raphael -- The High Renaissance, Michelangelo -- Albrecht ̈Dürer and German Renaissance art -- Riemenschneider and Grünewald;Pt. 3. Disc 5. Lectures 25-30. Netherlandish art in the 16th century -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Mannerism and the late work of Michelangelo -- Annibale Carracci and the reform of art -- Caravaggio -- Italian Baroque painting in Rome -- Pt. 3. DIsc 6. Lectures 31-36. Gian Lorenzo Bernini -- Peter Paul Rubens -- Dutch painting in the 17th century -- Rembrandt -- Poussin and Claude, the allure of Rome -- Baroque painting in Spain;Pt. 4. Disc 7. Lectures 37-42. Louis XIV and Versailles French art in the 18th century -- Neoclassicism and the birth of Romanticism -- Romanticism in the 19th century -- Realism, from Daumier to Courbet -- Manet and Monet, the birth of Impressionism -- Pt. 4. Disc 8. Lectures 43-48. Monet and Degas -- Renoir, Pissarro, and Cézanne -- Beyond Impressionism, from Seurat to Matisse -- Cubism and early modern painting -- Modern sculpture, Rodin and Brancusi -- Art between two wars, Kandinsky to Picasso
Description: This 48 lecture series surveys the great movements of European painting, sculpture, and architecture from the age of Charlemagne to the onset of World War II

The Pre-Raphaelite revolt 

Call Number: N6767.5.P7 P75 1996
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (30 min.) : sd, col. 1/2 in
Description: Investigates the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848 to early 1850's), which protested against the academic conventions of the art of the day. Studies works of Ford Madox Brown, Millais, Ruskin, Holman Hunt, Arthur Hughes and D. G. Rossetti. Commentary includes poems by Tennyson, D. G. Rossetti and Christina Rossetti

Return to Florence 

Call Number: N6921.F7 R4 1996
Publication information: [S.l. : Released by] Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill, 1968
Physical description: 1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Describes the international campaign launched to save the precious works of art in Florence which were damaged by the floods of November 1966. Shows the work done by experts and volunteers from all over the world to salvage paintings, books, frescoes, and buildings

I, Leonardo da Vinci 

Call Number: N 6923 .L33 I2 1965x
Publication information: [New York] : CRM McGraw-Hill Films, c1965
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (52 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Summary: This film biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance man, points out the enormous influence of his ideas and innovations as painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist on the intellectual history of the western world

Leonardo da Vinci; the mind of the Renaissance 

Call Number: N6923.L33 L33 2002
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: This program surveys the life and work of the perennially fascinating genius Leonardo da Vinci, from his birth in Tuscany to his final years in Cloux --Container

The life of Leonardo da Vinci 

Call Number: N6923.L33 L544 2003
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Distributed by Questar Video, c2003
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([8] p. col. ill. 17 cm.)
Description: Biography of the versatile Renaissance artist in the context of his times, describing some of his achievements in painting, architecture, engineering, sculpture, and science

Breaking free of the earth; Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935 

Call Number: N6999.M34 B7 1990
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by Home Vision, c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (54 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Based on the exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 1989. Documents the exhibition and allows Malevich to reveal his own story, providing viewers with analyses and commentary on his work that is vivid, precise and personal

Canal boat to history 

Call Number: N 7340 .C3 1988
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Home Vision, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Delves into the problems of communication caused by China's vast size and diversity of landscape, and shows how this has been reflected in Chinese art through the ages. From Shanghai, Edmund Capon journeys north, to the very cradle of Chinese civilization. He explores the three peaks of Chinese culture: the Bronze Age, the Han Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty and looks at their distinctive artistic achievements

The Chinese identity 

Call Number: N 7340 .C4 1988
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Home Vision, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Takes viewers to selected locations that embody the distinctive character of China and the symbols that represent the unique spirit reflected in China's art: the Forbidden City in Beijing, a classic Chinese garden, the sacred mountain, Huangshan. He also visits the great calligrapher Huang Maozi and Jingdezhen, the home of Chinese porcelain

China and the world 

Call Number: N 7340 .C45 1988
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Home Vision, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (55 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Explores China's erratic and invariably difficult contacts with other cultures and ideologies, caused by both natural and cultural barriers, and how this isolation has allowed China to develop her own great and distinctive traditions in art. Edmund Capon looks at China's cultural evolution through 2000 years of trading and commercial contacts and considers some of the ideological influences that entered the country from the outside world

The Emperor's eye; art and power in Imperial China 

Call Number: N7343 .E6 1990
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Filmakers Library, c1990, c1989
Physical description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Relates the priceless treasures of China's imperial Art collection in the National Palace Museum to the political climate of their time. Describes how Emperor Chienlung tried to create the world's greatest art collection

Through African eyes 

Call Number: N7380 .T4 1995
Publication information: New York, NY : Public Media Home Vision, c1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (47 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: When first seen in the Western world in 1900, African art was viewed as strange and exotic. Yet these works, the booty of colonial wars, would influence Picasso, Matisse, and Modigliani and change the course of 20th century art. This program, while recognizing this impact, introduces noted experts who explain the importance of reappraising African art within its own cultural context. Then local Malian inhabitants in a Bamana village and the walled city of Djenne comment on the function of art and the role of the artist in their society

The art of the Dogon 

Call Number: N7399.M3 A7 1988
Publication information: [New York?] : Home Vision, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (24 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Attempts to capture the beauty and power of Dogon art while placing it in context within Dogon beliefs and culture

Aboriginal art; past, present and future 

Call Number: N7400 .A26 1996
Publication information: Glenview, Ill. : Crystal Productions, c1996
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 13 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: The art of Australia's Aborigines is explored in this program from prehistoric cave art to the paintings of contemporary artists

The window 

Call Number: N7560 .W564 2002
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2002
Physical description: 1 videocassette (27 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: This program contemplates the use of the window as a passage between the indoor and outdoor worlds. Topics include landscape, in the form of a veduta, or view light, as illumination or metaphor glass, transparent or made opaque and objects and figures, as bridges between interior and exterior. The window as anti-veduta is also considered, as are cinematic and photographic analogs to the veduta

The dead and the dying 

Call Number: N8217.D5 D43 2002
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2002
Physical description: 1 videodisc (26 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Description: Examines the portrayal of death in art, from ancient times to the post-World War II era. Sarcophagi, paintings, sculptures, funerary statuary, news photos, cinema, mixed media, and a living pietá reveal the intricacies and nuances of rendering incidents of natural, accidental, and violent death, including Jesus's crucifixion. Explores the impacts of Christianity on modern figurative painting and of historical watersheds such as the First World War and the Holocaust on old notions of death

Wine in art; the culture of Clos Pegase 

Call Number: N8262 .W5 1997
Publication information: Hyde Park, N.Y. : Culinary Institute of America, c1997
Physical description: 1 videocassette (33 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Demonstrates the bond that has existed between wine and art for centuries. Discusses wine as an inspirational muse for artists and how wine has been depicted in artistic images

The Caravaggio conspiracy 

Call Number: N8795 .C3 1984
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision [distributor], c1984
Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Follows Peter Watson's undercover work disguised as a wealthy art dealer. Combines his detective work involved in searching for stolen masterpieces with a look at the complicated world of art dealing. Shows how a work is checked for authenticity, how prices are artificially bid up at auction, and how stolen masterpieces resurface in different guise

Masters of illusion 

Call Number: NC750 .M37 1991
Publication information: [Ill.] : Home Vision, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Examines artistic and scientific discoveries of the Renaissance, focusing on the discovery of perspective and the development of visual tools that create the magic of illusion

Leonardo's dream machines 

Call Number: ND623.L5 L472 2005
Publication information: [S.l.] : PBS Home Video, [c2005, c2003]
Physical description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. and b&w 4 3/4 in
Description: Among Leonardo da Vinci's drawings are thousands of drawings of strange and beautiful machines. Teams of experts set out to build full scale models of two of those machines -- a giant crossbow and a glider

Oriental brushwork 

Call Number: ND1040 .O7 1954x
Publication information: [Chicago, Ill. : released by] Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, [1956], c1954
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (16 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents a historical sketch of Chinese art, stresses its symbolism and expressiveness, emphasizes the purity and restraint of Chinese brushwork, and explains that oriental artists seek to convey mood and emotion rather than a literal representation. Describes different kinds of brushes and paper used by ancient and modern artists. Shows Tyrus Wong and Chiura Obata at work. Includes pictures of oriental paintings on display at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

A Day on the Grand Canal with the emperor of China, or, Surface is illusion but so is depth 

Call Number: ND 1043.5 .D3 1988
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Milestone Film & Video, 1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (46 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Discusses the Kangxi emperor's southern inspection tour, a 72-foot-long scroll by Wang Hui, and compares it with a later scroll by Xu Yang and a painting by Canaletto

The illustrated handscroll tale of Genji 

Call Number: ND1059.6.G4 I448 1993
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c1993
Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Presents and describes the 12th century handscroll version of Genji monogartari (The tale of Genji), an 11th century Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu

El favor de los santos 

Call Number: ND1432.M45 F386 2002
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002
Physical description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: With the introduction of Christianity to the Aztec people, a new kind of religious iconography arose: retablos and exvotos. Traditionally painted on tin, retablos tell of the lives of the saints while exvotos give thanks for miracles granted. This program brings together art historians, preservationists, and religious practitioners to look at the stories embedded in these paintings and their significance for those who pray to them --Container

Les jardins du paradis; Khamseh ou les cinq livres de Nezami XIe siecle manuscrit persan Ispahan 1619-1624 

Call Number: ND3241 .J373 2003
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2003
Physical description: 1 videocassette (31 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Focuses on an outstanding representative work of Persian miniature Five Poems by the 12th-century poet, Nezâmi, as interpreted in the 17th century by Haydar Qoli Naqqâsh, a painter of the Safavide School, and calligrapher, Abd al Djabbâr

The great wave 

Call Number: NE1325.K3 G743 2006
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006
Physical description: 1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 4 3/4 in
Description: Created when he was 70 years old, Katsushika Hokusai's woodblock painting depicts human vulnerability in the face of nature, with three fragile cargo boats about to be swamped by a giant wave. The program looks at the profound influence The Great Wave had on Western art, and the many instances in which it was reproduced, borrowed and adapted around the world

James McNeill Whistler; his etchings 

Call Number: NE 2012 .W4 J3 1989
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art, [1989], c1987
Physical description: 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences 1/2 in
Description: Presents the life and work of James McNeill Whistler focussing on his etchings

Hawaiian legacy 

Call Number: NK835.H3 H35 1991
Publication information: Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, c1991
Physical description: 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: In former times survival in Hawaii depended on the ability to craft high-quality objects from natural materials. Today, ancient arts and crafts are being studied as people try to find their cultural heritage and identity. Shows such crafts as canoe-building, sculpture, wood-carving and drum-making

Art, what is it? why is it? 

Call Number: NX 180 .S6 A7 1962x
Publication information: Chicago, Ill. : Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, [198-?], c1962
Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 study guide
Description: John Canaday analyzes the place of art among the humanities, as an expression of man's attempt to define what it means to be a human being. The program shows how the masterworks of art and architecture have formed a visual history of man's thought, ideals, and most widely held beliefs

How art made the world 

Call Number: NX440 .S652 2006
Publication information: [S.l.] : BBC Video [Florence, KY] : Distributed by BBC Worldwide Americas : [Burbank, CA] : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, 2006
Physical description: 2 videodiscs (290 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in
Contents: More human than human -- The day pictures were born -- The art of persuasion -- Once upon a time -- To death and back
Description: Reveals how the first big artistic discoveries were made and how they have cascaded down the centuries to define the look of the present day. Encompassing everything from cave paints to ceramics and pyramids to palaces, this film explores the global trend for unrealistic depictions of the human body the secret powers of the feature film how politicians manage to manipulate people so easily visions of the afterlife and why we use imagery at all

The face of Russia 

Call Number: NX556.A1 F32 1998
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision Select, c1998
Physical description: 3 videocassettes (180 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: pt. 1. The face on the firewood -- pt. 2. The facade of power -- pt. 3. Facing the future
Description: Explores the art and culture of Russia in a journey across history, encompassing Russia's architecture, paintings, music, literature and cinema. Part 1 examines icon painting, the first Russian art form, and reveals the spiritual ideas that have animated Russia for 1000 years, and witnesses recent restorations of churches and monasteries from Kiev to the Kremlin. Part 2 examines Russian architecture from Eastern-inspired onion domes to Western-type palaces. Also looks at the work of Gogol who revealed the human suffering behind Russia's facade. His Dead Souls inspired 19th-century radicals and Soviet dissidents, and continues to influence Russian artists today. Part 3 explores Russian music and cinema and looks at how new media forms are shaping Russia today. Musorgsky's opera Boris Godunov dramatized the conflict between power and the people. Sergei Eisenstein retold history with silent films of such power that they became more real than actual events

Great tales in Asian art 

Call Number: NX572 .G7 1996
Publication information: West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 1995
Physical description: 1 videocassette (95 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Contents: Ramayana -- Korean masked dance drama -- Gita Govinda -- Tale of Genji
Description: Tells four beloved stories of India, Indonesia, Korea, and Japan through masterpieces of the visual arts, drama, and dance

Art of Indonesia; tales from the shadow world 

Call Number: NX 580 .A1 A7 1990
Publication information: [S.l.] : Home Vision, c1990
Physical description: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Explores Indonesia's ancient treasures and its shadow world --the rituals, myths, and performances by which the harmony of the universe is maintained

Classicism and romanticism; the sober and the sublime 

Call Number: NX 600 .C5 C53 1989
Publication information: Mount Kisco, NY : The Center, [198-?]
Physical description: 1 videocassette (40 min.) : sd., col., 1/2 in. + 1 teacher's guide (51 p. 23 cm.)
Description: Shows how the movements of Classicism and Romanticism are expressions of man's needs for form, pattern, and security, as well as his desire for change, fantasy, and feeling. Includes musical works and works of art

The Spirit of romanticism 

Call Number: PN 603 .S6 1977
Publication information: Chicago, IL : Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1977
Physical description: 1 videocassette (26 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Outlines the historical events, and cultural influences of the romantic age, using vignettes which highlight the careers of such figures as Carlyle, Wordsworth, the Shelleys, Byron, Napoleon, Beethoven, Delacroix, and Chopin

William Blake 

Call Number: PR4146 .W45 1995
Publication information: New York : Time-Life Multimedia, 1976
Physical description: 1 videocassette : sd., col. 1/2 in. + 1 guide sheet
Description: Presents the life and thought of William Blake as related to our contemporary situation. Tells how the English poet lived a visionary life, describing and painting heaven. Explains how his bizarre lifestyle kept him poor, obscure, and solitary, but filled his days with delight

William Wordsworth and the age of English romanticism 

Call Number: PR 5885 .W5 1988
Publication information: [S.l.] : Ameritech, c1988
Physical description: 1 videocassette (29 min.) : sd., col. 1/2 in
Description: Discusses the exhibition displayed 1987-1988 at the New York Public Library, the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana and the Chicago Historical Society. Looks at the career of William Wordsworth whose work is at the center of this exhibition, along with the works of other representive artists and writers of the era

November, 2012

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