Abstraction . The painter's world. 1985. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Concentrates on the conventions, innovations and institutions affecting the practice of painting. VHS 1230

America by design . 1987. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Visits the sites that are our common ground including parks, monuments, civic centers, libraries, and numerous other spaces and structures that bear witness to those values we hold as a people. Architecture historian Spiro Kostof examines urban renewal efforts, restorations, re-creations, and preservations, and considers the current trend in monuments toward the abstract and symbolic. VHS 1162-1166

Anonymous was a woman . The originals, women in art. 1978. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Shows examples of folk arts and graphics created anonymously by 18th and 19th century women as items of domestic utility and decor. Drawings, prints, and brief live-action re-enactments illustrate the women's involvement in creative pursuits. VHS 5502

Architecture . Greek fire. 1989. 1 videocassette (26 min.). An analysis of modern architectural harmony and its indebtedness to ancient Greek design. Includes works by Le Corbusier and comment by architects Leon Krier and Peter Hodgkinson. Examines how the Greeks influenced Western architecture and whether we can hold on to those values as we build larger cities. Discusses the Greek ideas of harmony and proportion. VHS 1144

Architectures 2 . 2003. 1 videodisc (163 min.). "A series devoted to the most ambitious architectural creations of the 19th and 20th century, consisting of remarkable archive material, scale-models, and interviews with some of the greatest architects of our time"--Container. DVD 821

Art . Greek fire. 1989. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Western civilization has always worshiped ancient Greek art as the pinnacle of truth and beauty. This program explores the possibility that modern man actually may have created the Greek ideal himself. We now know, for example, that Greek statues, whose purity and lifelike characteristics we so admire, were originally painted in bold, gaudy colors. This video also illustrates our quest for the ideal in art and what it says about our values. VHS 1146

Art and revolution: Mexico . 1982. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Shows how history and art have been brought together in Mexico by such painters as Rivera and Siqueiros. Demonstrates that plastic art is the shared possession of all social and educational levels in Mexico. VHS 740

The art of computer animation . 1988. 1 videocassette (60 min.). A collection of representative works in computer animation by over thirty artists, ranging from exotic flights of fancy, to the ultra realism of simulators, to never seen before commercials. Vary in length from a few seconds to full dramas, displaying music, comedy, romance, and elegant and breath-takingly beautiful techniques. VHS 3886

Artists at work a film on the New Deal art projects . 1981. 1 videocassette (35 min.). An in-depth survey of the federal programs for support of visual artists during the depression. Several artists recount experiences with WPA's art project and other programs. Shows works of art created during the New Deal era and discusses the destruction and loss of many works of art produced then. VHS 1019

Bauhaus in America . 1994. 1 videocassette (87 min.). A documentary about architecture, design and human nature in the twentieth century. Film begins with three Americans who were students at the Bauhaus recalling the day the Nazis closed the Bauhaus in Berlin. Many Bauhaus students and faculty emigrated to America and began to transform the style of the American home, office buildings, interiors and advertising and design. The film closes with young architects creating a plan for 21st century Berlin, pointing to a renaissance of Bauhaus ideas. VHS 3405

Bauhaus the face of the 20th century . 1996. 1 videocassette (50 min.). Looks at the development of the Bauhaus and the key figures involved in it - including founder Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Laslo Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers. It also sets the history of the Bauhaus in the context of the political unrest and economic chaos of the Weimar Republic in Germany. Looks at the architecture of Chicago, much influenced by Mies van der Rohe, who emigrated there after the Bauhaus was shut by the Nazis in 1933. VHS 5328

The beauty and complexity of the Mandelbrot set . 1989. 1 videocassette (73 min.). Hubbard explains iteration and how it is used to create pictures of Julia and Mandelbrot sets, as well as the electric fields which would surround electrically charged objects shaped like them. The program concludes with remarks about these sets and the field of genetics and their relations. VHS 1533

Behind the scenes . Curriculum Materials Center. 1992. 10 videocassettes (ca. 28 min. each). Focuses on the creative process behind the visual and performing arts. Goes behind the scenes with renowned artists and performers, covering fields of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music, dance and theater. Designed to instill creative and critical thinking skills in children through exploration of the visual and performing arts. VHS 1921-1930

Bellissimo immagini del cinema italiano . 1987. 1 videocassette (110 min.). Explores Italian cinema as an art form and as an industry. Features great personalities in Italian film making from the 1940s to the 1980s with excerpts from many films. VHS 1638

Cartoon madness the fantastic Max Fleischer cartoons . 1991. 1 videocassette (94 min). This film combines archival footage of the animator Max Fleischman at work in his studio with restored versions or excerpts from many of his cartoons. Among his famous characters were Betty Boop, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Koko, and Popeye. VHS 6366

The cathedral engineers . The Nature of things. 1984. 1 videocassette (29 min.). Documents the long process of building New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, begun in 1892. Explores the history of cathedral architecture and tours European Gothic cathedrals that are St. John's models. VHS 6868

Colour, an introduction . 1987. 9 videocassettes (30 min. ea.). This series explores the fundamentals of color theory, mixing and color schemes, and color in the natural and human environment. VHS 2851-2859

Colour energy . Colour, an introduction. 1987. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Explores beyond the middle value of colours to the warm and cool variations of the six basic colours and the energy of complementary colours and colour/form relationships. VHS 2852

Colour light . Colour, an introduction. 1987. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Covers the additive theory of color, computer-aided exploration of color, reflections, color dynamics, iridescence, and lasers. VHS 2859

Comic book confidential . 1991. 1 videodisc (85 min.). Combines historical footage, interviews, animation, and live action to trace the history of comic books from 1933 to 1988. 22 significant comic artists and writers are discussed: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith, Jaime Hernandez, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoro, Francaise Mowly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Gilbert Shelton, Spain, Art Spiegelman. VHS 6366

Computer art . David Howard's art seen. 199. 3 videocassettes (69 min.). Documents ideas and methods used to create images on computers and from that to create large scale paintings. Feature interviews and work of Darcy Gerbarg, Barbara Nessim, and Samia Halaby. VHS 2921-2923

Computer science: Moving picture show Conclusion: Summing up . For all practical purposes: Computer science. 1986. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Computer science: Moving picture show demonstrates how computer art, graphics and animation are created. Explains pixels and how their collective image can represent a picture or any graphic symbol. Conclusion: Summing up goes over the key points of this series of programs and emphasizes the real-world applications of mathematics in today's society and the mathematical models that can be built from them. VHS 433 pt. 25-26

Creating . Heart of the dragon. 1985. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Explores the world of contemporary Chinese art and the philosophic and historic influences that shaped it. Examines how Chinese artists pursue the essence of "reality," using techniques that combine traditional values and unconventional materials to produce works that are resplendently Chinese. VHS 5990

Culture shock . 2000. 4 videocassettes (247 min.). Series of four documentaries explores why particular works or forms of art became (and some remain) controversial, gives points of view on the effects of the arts on individuals and on society, and addresses censorship, and education. Each also is a self-contained documentary that analyses the particular form or work and presents the cultural milieu in which it was created. VHS 6693-6696

The face of Russia . 1998. 3 videocassettes (180 min.). 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 Eisentsein retold history with silent films of such power that they became more real than actual events. VHS 5860

The fine art of separating people from their money . 1996. 1 videocassette (115 min.). Includes clips of 60 of the most outrageous and influential commercials of all time. Examines commercial advertising's influence on feature films and the techniques that have made commercials an art form on par with major motion pictures. VHS 4671

Folk art found me . 1993. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Provides insight into a relatively unknown art form by examining the Nova Scotian artists who have worked in the genre for the last several decades. Features artists Sidney Howard, Wesley Hubley, Eddie Mandaggio, Garnet McPhail, Bradford Naugler, Leo Naugler, Ransford Naugler, Harry Whitney and curators Bert Hemphill and Chris Huntington. VHS 4081

Frank and Ollie . 1999? 1 videocassette (ca. 89 min.). Walt Disney Productions animators, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, discuss Walt Disney's contribution to the art of animation and their own careers at the Disney studios. They share their secrets, insights and inspiration behind some of the greatest animated movies ever released. VHS 6404

Graffiti limbo . 2004. 1 videocassette (ca. 45 min.). Graffiti is an art form that emerged from the street and inspired artists such as Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat. Artists often face arrest and even death as they create what may be the ultimate form of public art. 'Graffiti limbo' looks at the street origins of graffiti, where illegal tagging, bombing and throw ups are a part of the subversive essence of the art. It follows the development of graffiti as a legitimate art form celebrated at international festivals. VHS 7906

Graphic design an introduction . Art in the classroom: Art in the classroom. 2001. 1 videocassette (36 min.). Graphic design professionals explain the four basic design principles as they relate to the print and web worlds. VHS 5709

Guerrillas in our midst . 1992. 1 videocassette (35 min.). Film is a "savvy exploration of the machinations of the commercial art-world during its boom in the 1980s, and brings the Guerrilla Girls to the screen. This anonymous group of art terrorists has succeeded in putting racism and sexism on the agenda in the art-world since 1985, and their witty and creative tactics have changed the face of political and cultural activism. Interviews with key figures in the Manhattan art scene, record-breaking auction sales, exhibition openings and interviews with the Guerrillas Girls themselves combine to highlight how the myth of the heroic male painter is perpetuated." Summary from Women Make Movies website [http://wmm.com]. VHS 5815

In and out of Africa . 1992. 1 videocassette (59 min.). "During the colonial period in the 1920's, European interest in collecting African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West. Today this multi-million dollar trade lies largely in the hands of Muslim merchants. This is a story about Gabai Baaré, a merchant who brings 'wood' from West Africa to sell in the United States. It is a story about the meaning of art." VHS 3660

In our own time . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Examines why the appearance of abstract expression caused the United States to become a center for the visual arts. Reviews the diversity of styles in the postwar period, including the work of Pollock, Warhol, Oldenburg. Also examines the explosive internationalization of the art world in the 1970s and 1980s. Features experts Rosalind Krauss, Germano Celant, and Clement Greenberg. VHS 1101

The history of the comics . 1990. 4 videocassettes (360 min.). A panorama of comics worldwide from their inception to the present. VHS 1697

Islamic art . The world of Islam. 1988. 1 videocassette (30 min.). 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. VHS 2845

Inside creativity . Creative spirit: Curriculum Materials Center. 1991. 1 videocassette (59 min.). Goes inside the creative mind to explore what it is and what causes it. Original animation helps us discover the secrets of intuition. Jazz great Benny Golson, composer of the score, discusses the nature and power of creative collaboration. Animator Chuck Jones, creator of Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner cartoons, a master calligrapher in Kyoto, a professor at Stanford's Business School, a designer and a pediatric neurosurgeon all demonstrate and share their creative secrets. VHS 1697

Joan does Dynasty . 1986. 1 videocassette (35 min.). Joan Braderman takes Dynasty apart and examines the pieces in this one woman exposé. VHS 1536

La Publicite en France = Advertising in France . Language & lifestyles. 1987. 1 videocassette (26 min.). A collection of commercials produced for French television which reflect the French perception of the commercial as an art form. Useful for hearing French spoken in everyday context, as well as for gaining insights into how famous French actors and personalities present products. VHS 1233

Living with colour . Colour, an introduction. 1987. 2 videocassettes (60 min.). An analysis of colour in the man-made world -- the world of fashion design, architecture, food -- and how it affects us in our daily life. VHS 2857-2858

The magic mirror . Images, 150 years of photography. 1990. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Draws on major photographic collections and the words of major photographers to show the "life-line" of photography. The producers select their own favorite photographs to trace the history of photography as an art form. VHS 1516

Masterpiece or forgery?: The story of Elmyr de Hory . 1997. 1 videocassette (52 min.). Born in 1905, Elmyr de Hory was called "The Myth of our Century" when he was revealed as a master forger in 1968. De Hory made an estimated 1000 fake paintings (many of which were sold to respected galleries and museums) in the style of the post-impressionists such as Matisse or Modigliani before he died (or disappeared) in 1976. De Hory also often faked his own identity and traveled easily throughout Europe's high society. VHS 5665

Masters of animation . 1986. 4 videocassettes (369 min.). Represents the peak achievements of 7,000 artists from 13 countries. This series provides an opportunity to experience the exciting diversity of the world's leading animation artists, and shows examples of state of the art animation technology. VHS 3860

Moving picture show: Conclusion: Summing up . For all practical purposes: Computer science. 1986. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Computer science: Moving picture show demonstrates how computer art, graphics and animation are created. Explains pixels and how their collective image can represent a picture or any graphic symbol. Conclusion: Summing up goes over the key points of this series of programs and emphasizes the real-world applications of mathematics in today's society and the mathematical models that can be built from them. VHS 433 pt. 25

Music of the spheres . Ascent of man. 1980. 1 videocassette (52 min.). Traces the evolution of mathematics and explores the relationship of numbers to musical harmony, early astronomy, and perspective in painting. VHS 1277

Nigerian art kindred spirits . Smithsonian world. 1991. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Where does the vitality of Nigerian art come from, tradition or modernism? Who are the artists and what are they telling us? What is the role of art in Nigerian culture? This program answers these and other questions through interviews with Nigerian artists, and provides historical background on Nigerian art. VHS 1428

Not a rhyme time . I'll make me a world. 1999. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). Examines African-American history of the arts from the 1960s through the 1980s, a time when Black artists made inroads in Hollywood, Broadway, and popular music through the "Motown sound." As Motown dominates the radio airwaves, a cultural revolution begins, with artists challenging the aesthetics, power, and ultimately the very existence of a so-called "mainstream." Painter Romare Bearden embraces the energy of collage as a means to capture the pulse of African-American communities, and poet Gwendolyn Brooks begins exploring new forms and ideas in her work as the "Black Arts Movement" makes itself known. By the 1980s, writer Alice Walker wins a Pulitzer Prize, is featured on the cover of "Time" magazine, and finds herself at the center of a maelstrom of controversy concerning the images of black woman and family life she presents in her novel "The Color Purple." VHS 5845

Painters painting . 1989. 1 videocassette (116 min.). Illustrates and examines the work and ideas of several modern abstract expressionist painters, including Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, and Andy Warhol, and others. Features interviews with the artists. VHS 2833

Painting and advertising . Ways of seeing. 1974. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.). Examines the effects of surrounding people with images of alternative lifestyles, images either painted or photographed. Berger examines his view of the similarities between modern selling of products and oil paintings of the past, both relating to the principle that you are what you have. VHS 1092

Party animals . 2002. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Whimsical sculptures of 200 donkeys and elephants created by local area artists on display in Washington, DC from April to September 2002. VHS 7437

Patterns of beauty . Traditional world of Islam. 1978. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Series of 6 programs examines the influence of Islamic doctrine and traditional practices on a wide variety of human endeavors throughout the Islamic world. Shows important contributions of Islamic civilization to the world. This segment looks at traditional Islamic art which is largely abstract and geometric in form. Recurring motifs, themes, and patterns render the various artistic styles developed in the Muslim world identifiable as Islamic. Film presents three elements of Islamic art: line and angle, vegetation, and calligraphy. Examples of Islamic architecture and paintings are shown. VHS 661

A personal journey with Martin Scorsese through American movies . Century of cinema. 1998? 3 videocassettes (225 min.). Featuring extracts from American movies, filmmaker Martin Scorsese shares his personal view and knowledge of films, directors and actors. The director's dilemma: Scorsese looks at the industry's perennial conflict between Art and Commerce by examining the dynamic between the directors's vision and the producer's "bottom line" -- The director as storyteller: Scorsese looks at the primary role of the director - that of the consummate storyteller and offers a wealth of extracts from film's greatest genres -- The director as illusionist: Scorsese explores the director's constant search for technological solutions to tell his story and implement his vision. The director as smuggler, Parts 1 & 2: Scorsese celebrates the director's surreptitious route to hide his personal message within the framework of a film -- The director as iconoclast: Scorsese champions the moldbreakers - those who dared to attack conventional film making head on, sending shock waves throughout the industry and ultimately expanding the art form. VHS 5554 pt. 1-3

The primal mind . 1984. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Incorporates scenic views, still photographs, and vintage footage in examining the contrasts between traditional native American concepts and European-based American cultures. Focuses on differences related to art, nature, architecture, and time. VHS 685

Saving the Sistine Chapel . 1989. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Using footage of the scientific measures used by the restoration team, NOVA explores the controversial restoration of the Sistine Chapel and whether the resulting brilliant colors are the original work of Michelangelo. VHS 620

Skyscrapers . Building big. 2000. 1 videodisc (ca. 65 min.). Why was New York's most famous skyscraper dubbed the "Empty State Building"? How big is Japan's planned "supertower"? Tour the world's most incredible skylines with award-winning author/illustrator, and captivating storyteller, David Macaulay, and trace the amazing stories of skyscrapers. From France's Gothic cathedrals to Malaysia's record-breaking Petronas Towers, this video introduces courageous creators, recounts little-known history, and reveals supersized triumphs through spectacular film footage and dramatic recreations. DVD 1103

The shock of the nude Manet's Olympia . Culture shock. 2000. 1 videocassette (60 min.). "Scandal surrounded the Paris 1865 exhibition of the painting, Olympia. Manet had dared to portray visual art's most universal subject, the nude, as an unidealized woman--a prostitute who stares directly at the viewer. He flouted the accepted ideas of beauty and propriety in art and outraged audiences. Although Olympia is now regarded at a masterpiece, visual artists continue to test society's conventions"--Packaging. VHS 6696

Squiggles, dots & lines . Curriculum Materials Center. 1989. 1 videocassette (25 min.). Features Ed Emberley's simple tools for drawing anything in the universe. Fourteen kids share their fun telling stories making cards and books, creating a giant mural, getting ready for a party and singing original songs. VHS 2708

The stone carvers . 1988. 1 videocassette (29 min.). Amidst the gargoyles at the Washington Cathedral, some of the last remaining stone carvers in America demonstrate their traditional skills and exchange lively stories. VHS 2728

Style wars . 1983. 1 videocassette (69 min.). Explores the subculture of New York's young graffiti writers and break dancers. Journeys into the secret world of the graffiti writers who risk arrest and injury in subway tunnels and train yards to win fame for their names and their artistic prowess. The result is a traveling art gallery to some, but a plague to city officials and most of the riding public. Offers a gallery of remarkable personalities and a vivid display of art, music and dance from the heart and soul of a highly visible, but little understood young people's world. Dramatizes conflicts between graffitists and the city, as well as among the graffitists themselves. VHS 5517

Three English cathedrals Norwich, Lincoln, Wells . 1995. 1 videocassette (45 min.). Explores three English cathedrals representing a range of styles from the bold Anglo-Norman nave of Norwich by way of the colorful and delicate early English gothic of Lincoln to the complex decorative niches and ribs of Wells. VHS 4739

The three worlds of Bali . Odyssey series. 1981. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Reflects anthropologist Stephen Lansing's theme of the three Balinese traditions: time and place, religion, and group participation, the organizing principle of all three being art. 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. The Balinese have retained what was important to them, which is a blend of animism, Hinduism, and Buddhism into a single continuous tradition. VHS 4950

Vatican City art & glory . Museum city video: VIEW Video art series. 1994. 1 videocassette (45 min.). See the Vatican's priceless treasures through the eyes of its artists, poets and architects. VHS 2925

The Washington colorists . 1986. 1 videocassette (37 min.). Between 1955-65, a few young artists made Washington, D.C. a center for innovation in modern art. These artists include: Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, Gene Davis and Paul Reed. This program includes a discussion of this movement and examples of these artists' paintings. VHS 4935

Ways of seeing . 1974? 4 videocassettes (30 min. each). Consists of four programs, each presenting the classical arts, particularly European paintings, in different contemporary terms. Considers the ways paintings are distorted by the mass media that transmits them, examines the ways in which women are portrayed in art, discusses paintings as material possessions, and shows how paintings are used in advertising. Program 1: Discusses the uniqueness of paintings and how they have been distorted and transformed by the camera and printing press. -- Program 2: Focuses on the nudes in European oil paintings to show how men see women and how women view themselves. -- Program 3: Discusses paintings and possessions and links them with modern advertising. -- Program 4: Explores how modern advertising uses the techniques and images portrayed in old masterpieces. VHS 1089-1092

Without fear or shame . I'll make me a world. 1999. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). Examines African-American history of the arts from World War I through the jazz age and into the depression, especially the Harlem Renaissance and the meaning of art to the Black community. These are the years of massive migration from South to North, unprecedented white fascination with "Negro" entertainment and arts, and the day of a "New Negro" in politics and culture, infused by the energies of such leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. Program highlights Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the woman blues singers who bring their Southern style North. Also examines how conflicts arise over what art should express, when community leaders seek to use art in the struggle for racial justice. VHS 5842

Zygosis montage: John Heartfield and the political image . 1991. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Explores the development of photomontage, from German-born commercial artist John Heartfield's pioneering work to the present use of montage techniques in advertising and video. In a radical and humorous way, the documentary deals with animation, archival footage, interviews, and images of Berlin when the wall was taken down. VHS 2444

Art History

Against the odds: The artists of the Harlem Renaissance . 1995. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Documentary, based on the Newark Museum exhibit of the same name, tells of the struggle of Black visual artists in the 1920s and 1930s to show and sell their work. It describes the influence of the Harmon Foundation in creating an artistic home where Black visual artists flourished and developed a wide range of talent. Features more than 130 rarely seen paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures by black artists and also archival footage of these artists at work. VHS 4984

The age of anxiety . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This final segment explores how American art has reflected the upheavals of the last 25 years. Hughes traces the evolution of abstract art and minimalism and considers the spiritual richness of earth works, in which nature is the artist's medium. He ends the series by profiling a wide range of contemporary artists including Edward Kienholz, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Walter De Maria, Robert Smithson, Bruce Nauman, Richard Diebenkorn, Philip Guston, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Susan Rothenberg, Eric Fischl, Louise Bourgeois and James Turrell. VHS 4578

An age of reason, an age of passion . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Covers the move from the rococo period to neoclassicism and romanticism. Relates stylistic changes to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Covers the work of David, Géricault, Turner, Delacroix, and Goya. Contrasts Courbet's treatment of subjects from everyday life with the innovations and techniques used by the impressionists in France. Examines the impressionists' characteristic concern with color and changing light and contrasts this with the very individualistic visions of the Post-Impressionists. Features experts Pierre Rosenberg and Robin Middleton. VHS 1098

American visions . 1997. 8 videocassettes (ca. 60 min. each). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. Follows nearly three centuries of creativity, exploring a nation whose art mirrors its diversity. VHS 4571-4578

Art of the western world . 1989. 9 videocassettes (540 min.). Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture. Studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them. Interpretation and commentary by art historians emphasize the significance of each work and its relationship to art movements, art theory and the social environment. VHS 1093-1101

The artist . Renaissance, the origins of the modern world. 1993. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Traces the creation of new styles and roles for art through the lives and work of various masters including Donatello, Brunelleschi, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio. VHS 2983

The Avant-garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New perspectives . 1988. 1 videocassette (89 min.). Host Hugh Downs describes the Russian avant-garde movement as represented by the exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 8- September 28, 1980. In his words, the film discusses the "mad, mystical, inventive, intellectual intuitive, explosive, passionate, and, finally, tragic" art and artists, including painting, sculpture, theater, literature, ceramics, fashion, music, design, film, photography, and architecture. VHS 888

Black Athena . Ethnic studies video collection. 1990. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Reviews evidence that the culture of ancient Greece had its origins in Africa and the East and that the West should recognize what it owes to Black and Eastern cultures. Explores the debate around Prof. Martin Bernal's book on the African origins of Greek culture, Black Athena. Leading classicists and Egyptologists discuss Bernal's indictment that 19th century scholars systematically denied the connections between Greece and the non-European cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean. VHS 1608

The classical ideal . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Traces the origins of humanism and the classical style to ancient Greece and the genius of Roman engineering, architecture and portrait sculpture. Looks at Kouroi and Korai figures, as well as by the architectures of the Pantheon. From Greece to Rome through the Hellenistic period, the program focuses on the new artistic approach to human form and violent emotions that reached its pinnacle with the altar of Zeus at Pergamun. Identifies Roman art as inherently political art that concentrated on technical sophistication and detail. Traces the decline of humanistic values in the late antique period where classical themes and forms were adapted to serve Christian purposes. Features art experts John Boardman and Richard Brilliant. VHS 1093

Civilisation . 199. 13 videocassettes (52 min. ea.). Presents aspects of the development of Western civilization from the 5th to the 20th century. For each age, the program highlights the art and the chief philosophy. VHS 2371-2383

A day in the country: Impressionism and the French landscape . 1990. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Covers significant works selected from an exhibition of Impressionist landscape paintings organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Includes works of Monet, Pissaro, Sisley, Manet, Gaugin, Cezanne, Renoir, van Gogh and other masters. VHS 2370

The early Renaissance . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (57 min.). 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 Grüenwald's Isenheim altarpiece. Also discusses the spirit of the Renaissance as reflected in Albrecht Dürer's work. Features experts John White and Colin Eisler. VHS 1095

The empire of signs . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this seventh segment, after the post-war era, Hughes traces the development of abstract expressionism and the life of Jackson Pollock, and explores how artists as different as James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, David Smith, Willem De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Romare Bearden, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns reacted to the new consumer culture. VHS 4577

The eye of Thomas Jefferson . 1977. 1 videocassette (28 min.). A documentary on the exhibition of the same title held at the National Gallery of Art. Deals with the aesthetic and intellectual interests of Thomas Jefferson and the influence European culture had on his ideas. VHS 5509

A fresh view impressionism and post-impressionism . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Contrasts Courbet's treatment of subjects from everyday life with the innovations and techniques used by the impressionists in France. Examines the impressionists' characteristic concern with color and changing light and contrasts this with the very individualistic visions of the Post-Impressionists. Features experts John House and Griselda Pollock. VHS 1099

From reliable sources: The Archives of American Art . 1988. 1 videocassette (26 min.). Describes the letters, photographs and other documents available from the collections of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. VHS 432

From these roots: A review of the "Harlem Renaissance" . 1974. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.). Uses still photographs and filmed sequences to recreate the social and political climate of the Harlem renaissance--a period of great artistic and cultural activity in the 1920's which had, and still has, a profound influence on black American art and self-awareness and life-style. VHS 2813

The gilded age . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This fourth segment examines the many sides of America in the 19th century: the extravagant mansions of Newport's tycoons, the triumph building of the Brooklyn Bridge, the haunting realism of Civil War photography, and the artistic creations of John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Thomas Eakins, John Peto, Winslow Homer, John Robling, Louis Sullivan, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and Bernard Berenson. VHS 4574

Grandeur and obedience ; The light of experience . Civilisation. 1993? 1 videocassette (100 min.). Grandeur and obedience: looks at the Rome of the counter-Reformation, the Rome of Michelangelo and Bernini. Surveys the development of western civilization in the 17th century as evidenced especially in the work of Titian, Rubens, and Bernini. Points out that the essence of baroque was the uniting of flesh and spirit, dogma and sensuality, obedience and freedom as shown in such religious figures of the time as St. Ignatius, St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross. -- Light of experience: Surveys the development of western civilization during the 17th century. Points out that the works of the Dutch painters, including Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Vermeer, and Saenredam, show the revolutionary change in thought that replaced divine authority with experience, experiment, and observation. VHS 2377-2378

The hero as artist ; Protest and Communication . Civilisation. 1993? 1 videocassette (100 min.). Hero as artist: portrays the year 1500 in Italy, when the full power of the Renaissance was felt and the city-states began to decline. As Florence lost influence, Rome became a world power. The humanistic enlargement of the spirit is felt in the visual images of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante.-- Protest and Communication: The Reformation in the North is explored -- the Germany of Durer and Luther, the world of Erasmus, the France of Montaigne, and Shakespeare's Elizabethan England. Highlights the printing press and the Protestant Reformation. VHS 2375-2376

The high Renaissance . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Covers key aspects of the High Renaissance, including the advent of the artist as genius (Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael), the rise of Rome as a center of artistic vitality, and Venetian preoccupation with the quality of light (Giorgione and Titian). Also examines the social turbulence of the late sixteenth century and the reinterpretation of classical architectural principles. Features experts Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt and David Rosand. VHS 1096

Into the twentieth century . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Covers the work of the Fauves, the Cubists, the International style, and the Surrealists. Discusses how these movements relate to modern life. Features experts Christopher Green and Margit Rowell. VHS 1100

The landscape of pleasure . The Shock of the new. 1980? 1 videocassette (52 min.). Art critic Robert Hughes talks about the liberation of color which began in the late 19th century and was amplified by Matisse and Derain as a means of expressing feeling. Mr. Hughes also points out the increasing personalization of art as seen in the work of Braque and Picasso. VHS 3553

Masters of illusion . 1991. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Film examines artistic and scientific discoveries of the Renaissance as it focuses on the discovery of perspective and the development of visual tools that create the magic of illusion. VHS 1582

Mona Lisa descending a staircase . 1992. 1 videocassette (9 min.). Using the innovative technique of clay painting, artist and filmmaker Joan Gratz takes the viewer on an entertaining and colorful journey through the development of Modern Art. Starting with the brilliant landscapes and haunting self-portraits of impressionism, film moves through cubism and surrealism, then finishes with vibrant images of contemporary pop art and hyperrealism. DVD 2101, Home Use Collection VHS 2466

Pandora's box: The roles of women in ancient Greece . Institute for Mediterranean Studies. 1995. 1 videocassette (47 min.). Scholars have come to realize that the artists of ancient Greece, in presenting interpretations of myths and rituals in vase painting and sculpture, used a wealth of visual imagery. Using this art, Ellen Reeder illustrates how that imagery reveals to us today the values, perceptions and concerns that surrounded the woman of Classical Greece. VHS 4395

The promised land . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this second segment early settlers in the "promised land" strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land while in the West, Spanish missions use art to convert the natives. In the East, Protestant settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures while in Virginia, an exiled aristocracy strives to recreate its ideal of England. VHS 4572

The pursuit of happiness ; The Smile of reason . Civilisation. 1993? 1 videocassette (100 min.). Pursuit of happiness: examines the 18th century whose Baroque spirit is represented by the music of Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn. Also look at the great builder Balthazar Neumann and the great decorator Battista Tiepolo. -- Smile of reason: looks at the age of enlightenment. Presents art works by Van Loo, David, De Troy, and Houdon, discusses briefly the thought of Voltaire and Jefferson, and offers a sample of the architecture of the period as reflected by Blenheim Castle, Versailles, and Monticello. VHS 2379-2380

Realms of light: The Baroque . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (60 min.). 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. VHS 1097

Renaissance, the origins of the modern world . 1993. 6 videocassettes (347 min.). Depicts the ideas of some well known people during this period of history on the topics of art, faith, culture, government, politics and power, nature and religion. VHS 2981-2986

The republic of virtue . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Part 1 of an eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This first segment examines some of the first images made in America which resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the founding fathers felt that classicism gave the young nation power and authority. In Washington, D.C. architects adopted and transformed the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal. Hughes explores the work of artists and architects, Benjamin West, John S. Copley, Charles W. Peale, Thomas Cole and Charles Bulfinch. VHS 4571

Romance and reality ; Man, the measure of all things . Civilisation. 1993? 1 videocassette (100 min.). Romance and reality: reviews the thirteenth century with its emphasis on courtly love. Includes discussion of the poetry of Dante and the art of Giotto. -- Man, the measure of all things: surveys the development of Western civilization during the 15th century as evidenced in the work of Botticelli, Masaccio, Bellini, Giorgione, Van Eyck, and Alberti. VHS 2373-2374

Sister Wendy's story of painting . 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. Sister Wendy Beckett explores the world of Renaissance painting in the museums of Florence, Rome, Venice, and Nuremberg. Among the artists covered: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Giorgione, Dürer, Fra Angelico, and Botticelli. VHS 4806

Streamlines and breadlines . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This sixth segment examines the mythic images of the 1920s and 30s as skyscrapers rise in New York and the rural heartland is idealized by Regionalists like Thomas Hart. Artists of the WPA celebrate the worker as hero, while Jacob Lawrence tells stories of black America, and ambitious New Deal projects like Hoover Dam project self-confidence in hard times. Also examines the work of Raymond Hood, Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, and Grant Wood. VHS 4576

Strokes of genius . 1983. 6 videocassette (250 min.). Detailed profiles of the career and work of six 20th century American painters and sculptors. VHS 4811-4816

The threshold of liberty . The Shock of the new. 1980. 1 videocassette (52 min.). Discusses the impact of surrealism and shows examples of the art and architecture produced by this movement, including the Ideal Temple built in rural France, the Watts Tower, and paintings by Miro, Dali, Magritte, and others. VHS 3555

Vienna 1900 . 1998? 1 videocassette (30 min.). Tour of Vienna around the turn of the century. Emphasis on the people as well as the architecture and art influenced by the Baroque Era. VHS 6733

The warrior . Renaissance, the origins of the modern world. 1993. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Examines the art, methods and morality of Renaissance warfare and how they differ from our modern perceptions of armed conflict. VHS 2982

A wave from the Atlantic . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this fifth segment waves of immigrants in the early 20th century bring both their old culture and a thirst for the new. The tenements are documented by photographer Jacob Riis and the socially conscious Ashcan School. Then, after the historic 1913 Armory show, artists like Joseph Stella, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz forge a modernism that is uniquely American. Film also presents the work of Robert Henri, George Bellows, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhand, Marsden Hartley and Frank Lloyd Wright. VHS 4575

A white garment of churches: Romanesque and Gothic art . Art of the western world. 1989. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Examines Romanesque and Gothic churches as evidence of the values of the societies that created them. Shows the effect of monasticism and pilgrimage on Romanesque church architecture. Uses Gislebertus's sculpture at St. Lazare in Autun to show the medieval focus on heaven and the afterlife. The Gothic architecture, sculpture and stained glass at St. Denis and Chartres are discussed as evidence of a new theology and profound social changes during the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. Features experts Paul Crossley, William Clark and Anne Prache. VHS 1094

The wilderness and the west . American visions. 1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.). An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this third segment as majestic primal America fosters the idea of landscape as God's fingerprint, landscape painting holds deep religious and patriotic connotations. Soon, the belief in Manifest Destiny is embodied in art. Traveling from Yellowstone to the Hudson Valley, Hughes explores the work of artists such as Thomas Cole, John Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, John Gast, Currier & Ives, Emanuel Leutze, George Catlin, Frederick Church, Frederic Remington, Thomas Noran and William Jackson and finds the conflicting impulses to worship the land and to conquer it, to create a myth of the West just as the frontier is closing. VHS 4573

The worship of nature ; The fallacies of hope . Civilisation. 1993? 1 videocassette (100 min.). Worship of nature: Christianity, the chief creative force in Western civilization for almost a thousand years, suddenly declines and is replaced by a belief in the natural goodness of man and the divinity of nature. The painters whose works are shown and discussed in this episode are Constable, Friederich, and above all Turner, whose work is the supreme embodiment of nature deified. -- Fallacies of hope: looks at the 19th century through the works of such painters such as Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin who turn to impressionism. VHS 2381-2382

Famous Artists

Alice Neel, painter . 1989. 1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.). Painter Alice Neel discusses her life and art. VHS 1363

Arnoldi, an artist's studio portrait . David Howard's art seen. 1987. 1 videocassette (28 min.). Interview with painter Charles Arnoldi, Venice, California. VHS 2918

Arshile Gorky . Strokes of genius. 1998? 1 videocassette (29 min.). Explores the life and work of twentieth-century Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky whose influence on his contemporaries gave birth to the New York School of abstract expressionist painting. Uses archival footage and photographs, supplemented with readings from his letters and interviews with family and associates, to re-create Gorky's world and show how his early paintings mirror the pain of his youth as an exile and the later works reflect the influence of modern masters on his style. Home Use Collection VHS 4811

Barbara Kruger pictures & words . Art / New York. 1996. 1 videocassette (28 min). Barbara Kruger's art blends the pragmatic world of advertising and graphic design, a highly developed aesthetic sense and a razor sharp political viewpoint that touches on such themes as patriarchy and our consumer culture as she makes work that not only questions the traditional modes of making art, but work that forcefully interjects itself into our preconceived values and social systems. Seen are two recent shows at the Mary Boone Gallery in SOHO as well as work done in the streets of New York. In interviews, author Kate Linker and critic Peter Schjeldahl discuss the artist's work. VHS 6391

Barbara Nessim: Anatomy of an artists idea . David Howard's art seen: Computer art. 1987? 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.). Barbara Nessim discusses her use of computers, photography, sketching and painting to reach and explore her subconscious through art. VHS 2922

Beverly Buchanan . A world of art : works in progress. 1997. 1 videocassette (VHS) (25 min.). A profile of African-American artist Beverly Buchanan, whose works evoke the shacks of the American South. VHS 7844

Bill Viola selected works . 1986. 1 videocassette (55 min.). This collection of video art represents Bill Viola's four most acclaimed videotapes. Each is structured around a solitary movement, moment or phenomenon through which Viola explores the nature of video, the categories of perception, the cognitive and spiritual inner life of the witness. VHS 555

Caravaggio . 1987. 1 videocassette (90 min.). A film based on the life and art of Caravaggio, the greatest, Italian post-Renaissance painter. Caravaggio was the 'enfant terrible' of Italian Art and his short life, marked by extremes of passion and moral and artistic radicalism, ended violently. VHS 6530

Chihuly gardens & glass . 2004. 1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.). "Dale Chihuly's decades of exploring the relationship of glass and nature reach a zenith in 2002 at Chicago's historic Garfield Park Conservatory. Follow behind the scenes as Chihuly and his team create and install glass sculptures among the plants at the revitalized urban conservatory"--Container. DVD 1011

Chris Burden . 1989. 1 videocassette (28 min.). Chris Burden talks about his works of the past twenty years, from the performances of the seventies to the sculpture and installations of the eighties. VHS 5915

Christo in Paris . 1990. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Chronicles the struggle of the artist, Christo, to gain permission to wrap the Pont-Neuf in fabric for fourteen days. Shows the bridge as it was being wrapped and the reactions and dialog it inspired as a finished work of art. DVD 2572, VHS 2644

Christo's Valley curtain . 1974. 1 videocassette (28 min.). Examines the construction of the Mammoth Valley curtain, a 500-foot-high veil stretched across Rifle Gap, Colo., by the Bulgarian artist Christo. VHS 2645

Darcy Gerbarg: Artist of the computer revolution . David Howard's art seen: Computer art. 1987. 1 videocassette (23 min.). Documents method used to create an image on a computer and from that to create a large scale acrylic painting. Computer artist Darcy Gerbarg discusses her work. VHS 2921

David Smith steel into sculpture . Strokes of genius. 1998? 1 videocassette (58 min.). Presents a documentary portrait of sculptor David Smith, highlighting works from all periods of his life and including extensive interviews and archival footage showing Smith's family and friends. Home Use Collection VHS 4812

De Kooning on De Kooning . Strokes of genius. 1998? 1 videocassette (58 min.). Portrays the life of American painter Willem de Kooning who is regarded as the most illustrious abstract expressionist painter of the New York School. Still and motion pictures made over his career are interjected into informal conversations with the artist and his wife as they discuss the early struggles, camaraderie with key figures in the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1940s and offer glimpses into de Kooning's inspirations and motivations. VHS 4813

Edvard Munch . 2006. 1 videodisc (ca. 174 min.). A biography of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world. DVD 1912

Eye to eye . 1989. 1 videocassette (VHS) (18 min.). Impressions of Robert Mapplethorpe and his work as related by one of his models. VHS 7349

Frankenthaler: Toward a new climate . The Originals, women in art. 1978. 1 videocassette (30 min.). One of a series of biographical documentaries whose focus is on the integration of the artists' lives and works. Shows painter Helen Frankenthaler creating a complete work, with friends and colleagues in her studio, in her home, and at an exhibition of her work. Examines her paintings and includes interviews with colleagues and critics. VHS 5501

Franz Kline remembered . Strokes of genius. 1998? 1 videocassette (29 min.). A film portrait of the late American abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline best known for his vigorous, large-scale black-and-white abstractions. Through the use of photographs, period footage, and interviews with fellow artists and friends, the man, the painter, and his time come to life. Home Use Collection VHS 4814

The frescoes of Diego Rivera . Portrait of an artist. 1986. 1 videocassette (35 min.). Explores Rivera's evolution as an artist, his use of the fresco technique and his politics. His frescoes unite themes of nature and revolution, drawing a parallel between the evolution of life and the struggle for human dignity. VHS 2640

Frida Kahlo . Portrait of an artist. 1983. 1 videocassette (62 min.). Profiles Frida Kahlo's work, her interest in politics and her tempestuous relationship with husband Diego Rivera, leader of the Mexican muralist movement. VHS 733

Georgia O'Keeffe . Portrait of an artist: Women in art. 1977. 1 videocassette (60 min.). American artist Georgia O'Keeffe tells of her marriage and devotion to photographer Alfred Stieglitz and recounts their involvement in the formative years of the Modern Art Movement. The program includes many of her paintings. VHS 1576

Golub . 1988. 1 videocassette (56 min.). Follows the artist Leon Golub as he creates one of his large canvases, White squad X, from its early sketches to its first major exhibition over a year later in Derry, Northern Ireland. Challenges viewers to question their relationship to the violent nature of the subject of the painting and of modern society. VHS 7067

In a brilliant light: Van Gogh in Arles . 1984. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Tells the story of Van Gogh's 444 days in the south of France focusing on works of art rather than on the life of the artist. This film was made in the Netherlands and in Provence, using the artist's original canvases. VHS 2273

In search of Rothko . Strokes of genius. 1998? 1 videocassette (22 min.). Explores the life and work of Mark Rothko as seen through the eyes of an art history student struggling to understand Rothko's work. Includes still and motion pictures made during his career interjected with informal conversations with fellow artists, art historians and collectors. Covers the progression of Rothko's work from figuration in the 1920s to biomorphism and surrealism in the '30s and '40s, to his mature and best-known color fields from the 1960s. VHS 4815

In the realms of the unreal: The mystery of Henry Darger . 2005. 1 videodisc (82 min.). A haunting portrait of Henry Darger, a reclusive janitor by day and a visionary artist by night. DVD 1308

Isabel Bishop portrait of an artist . 1977. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Explores the art of painter Isabel Bishop and how she expresses her experiences and inspirations on canvas. Master of romantic realism, Bishop's preoccupation with the ordinary produced a style uniquely her own. For more than half a century she has painted the shopgirls, hoboes, and students she saw on the streets of New York City. Home Use Collection VHS 5797

Jack Levine feast of pure reason . Portrait of an artist. 1986. 1 videocassette (58 min.). America's foremost social realist painter, Jack Levine, is shown in his studio, at home, and in other locations where he discuses his life and work. VHS 692

Jackson Pollock portrait . Strokes of genius. 1998? 1 videocassette (54 min.). Focuses on the depressed, alcoholic, and sometimes violent artist who shocked the critics with his huge canvases on which he spattered and dripped paint with sticks, brushes and spatulas. Traces Pollock's stormy road from despair to success to a violent death. When he died in 1956, his paintings were worth millions. VHS 4816

Jasper Johns ideas in paint . 1989. 1 videocassette (56 min.). This program examines the life, work, and inspiration of artist Jasper Johns, whose rich images of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic community away from Abstract Expressionism towards Pop Art and Minimalism. Includes conversations with the painter and comments from various colleagues including John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and a trip to the 1988 Venice Biennale. Home Use Collection VHS 5801

Jean-Michel Basquiat an interview . Art/New York . 1989. 1 videocassette (33 min.). Look at work and views of 1980s art world superstar -- and enfant terrible -- Jean-Michel Basquiat who died in 1988 at the age of 28. Interview of Basquiat conducted at his Soho studio in 1983. VHS 5791

Kiki Smith . Art/New York. 1994. 1 videocassette (28 min.). An interview with Kiki Smith, an innovative sculptor in New York City. Covers two of her exhibits (in 1992 and in 1993) at the Fawbush Gallery. Also includes interviews with Joe Fawbush and Thomas Jones, her dealers, and Claudia Gould, director of Artist Space, also in New York. VHS 5794

Lust for life . 1989. 1 videocassette (123 min.). The story of tormented artist Vincent van Gogh. Though financed and encouraged by his devoted brother, Theo, and spurred on by the excitement of late 19th century Paris and a stormy relationship with Paul Gauguin, Vincent's prolific genius was tragically marred by epilepsy and madness. His paintings, which went unsold during his lifetime but are now valued at millions, are shown throughout the film, as are the locations which inspired them in Holland, Belgium, and France. VHS 1386

Mary Cassatt, impressionist from Philadelphia . The Originals, women in art. 1975. 1 videocassette (30 min). One of a series of biographical documentaries whose focus is on the integration of the artists' lives and works. The best examples of Cassatt's works have been collected for presentation in order to reveal their quality, variety, and originality. Her years in Paris, her relationship with Degas, the influence of her socially prominent Philadelphia family, the places she lived and painted are shown with on-location footage and stills. VHS 5504

Mary Frank a matter of spirit . Art/ New York. 1998. 1 videocassette (28 min.). Looks at the work of Mary Frank, an artist best known for her ceramic sculpture and her work in printmaking. However, in the past 10 years or so, she has also turned to painting and has created an impressive body of work rich in evocative imagery. Includes Frank's 1998 exhibition titled "Inscapes" at the DC Moore Gallery as well as interviews with gallery director Edward De Luca, art historian Linda Nochlin and Mary Frank in her studio and sculpture garden in upstate New York. VHS 5796

Maya Lin a strong clear vision . 1995. 1 videocassette (98 min). Documentary on the sculptor/architect Maya Lin and her work, which includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., the Peace Chapel at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., the civil rights memorial in Montgomery, Ala., and more. VHS 4121

Memories of Monet . 1984. 1 videocassette (29 min.). Blends views of Claude Monet's gardens at Giverny, France, with his paintings as Clare Bloom evokes the friendship between the French impressionist master and the American painter Lilla Cabot Perry. Based on Perry's memoirs. VHS 3625

Mister boogie woogie man, Mondrian . 1995. 1 videocassette (49 min.). Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is one of the most enigmatic as well as seminal figures in 20th-century art. Neoplasticism, the spare, severely geometric style for which he is known, exerted international influence on painting, architecture, interior decor, furniture, design, and typography. Video traces the artistic growth of this extraordinary man from his childhood in the Netherlands to his years in Paris and New York. VHS 5804

Nevelson in process . The Originals, women in art. 1977. 1 videocassette (30 min.). One of a series of biographical documentaries whose focus is on the integration of the artists' lives and works. Contrasts sculptor Louise Nevelson's public and private lives, demonstrates her technique of creating pieces out of discarded wood, and offers her thoughts on her work. VHS 5503

Photographer Sam Abell's art of simplicity . 1989. 1 videocassette (30 min.). Abell relates the pictures he takes to his visual thinking: what he sees and how he interprets his impressions, finally translating them into pictures. He identifies stylistic qualities in his work, reveals the rewards of patience during the shoot, and explores the value of pictures that transcend their literal meaning. VHS 824

The Piero trail . Omnibus. 1997. 1 videocassette (66 min.). Uses original drawings, computer graphics and virtual reality combined with expert commentary to analyze the life and works of Piero della Francesca and his contribution to the use of mathematically-based perspective in painting. VHS 5327

Pioneer of color a conversation with Lois Mailou Jones . 1993. 1 videocassette (57 min.). Doris McMillon interviews artist Lois Mailou Jones about her life, her art and the factors that influenced her art. The interview is interspersed with photographs of and paintings by Lois Mailou Jones. VHS 2743

Pollock . 2001. 1 videodisc (123 min.). "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode"--Container. DVD 380

Portrait of an African artist: Elimo Njau the antelope-man . African studies. 1993. 1 videocassette (21 min.). Conversation with East African artist Elimo Njau on the state of contemporary African art; a tour of the Paa ya Paa Gallery in Nairobi and the sculpture, painting, and ceramics which illustrate his thesis that Africans, though materially poor, are spiritually rich. VHS 5540

Raphael . Portrait of an artist. 1982. 3 videocassettes (174 min.). Presents a reappraisal of Raphael's work in the light of ever-changing cultural values. Shot on location in Urbino, Perugia, Florence and Rome, where the artist lived and worked. VHS 334

Rivers and tides: Andy Goldsworthy working with time . 2004. 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.). Follows Andy Goldsworthy's bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and opens up about his creative process. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multi-colored pools of flowers. Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature - who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometime before it is even finished. DVD 1056

Robert Irwin the beauty of questions . 1997. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Artist Robert Irwin, a leading artist in the environmental/perceptual field, presents his approach to art and its role in the world, and talks about his lifelong process of artistic search and discovery. Shows him at work on some of his installations in various locations. VHS 4605

Running fence Christo's project for Sonoma and Marin Counties: State of California 1972-76 . 1978. 1 videocassette (58 min.). Follows the artist, Christo, from concept, to building, to presentation of a 24.5-mile-long, 18'-high fence of white fabric across Sonoma and Marin counties. The project took nearly 4 years to complete. After 2 weeks the fence was taken down and the materials given to the people whose land the fence was built on. VHS 2646

Saint-Gaudens masque of the golden bowl . 1986. 1 videocassette (60 min.). This film is a lush dramatization of a day in the life of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, pre-eminent sculptor of the American Renaissance, as seen and recorded in his own words and in those of his contemporaries. Re-creates one day during the summer of 1905, when friends and neighbors of Saint-Gaudens celebrated the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Cornish Colony with a masque and pageant on the grounds of his home and studio. VHS 1316

Samia Halaby an artist’s personal promise . David Howard's art seen: Computer art. 1987? 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.). Contemporary artist Samia Halaby discusses her use of the computer to create innovative abstract designs while combining technology and art. VHS 2923

Spirit catcher . The originals: women in art. 1977. 1 videocassette (30 min.). One of a series of biographical documentaries whose focus is on the integration of the artists' lives and works. Examines the life and work of the artist, Betye Saar. Uses examples of her art, her comments about her career and the comments of friends and colleagues. Shows how her fascination with the mystical and the unknown merges with her social concerns as a Black American. Her provocative and powerful assemblages, often employing discarded objects, reveal her interest in Caribbean culture and her ability to liberate stereotyped black images from derogatory contexts, thus creating new levels of awareness. Includes several sequences of her at work on her assemblages. VHS 5505

Thomas Eakins a motion portrait . Metropolitan Museum of Art home video collection. 1986. 1 videocassette (60 min.). Combines dramatic re-creation with documentary photographs, interviews, and archival footage to tell the story of Eakins's life. VHS 364

Winslow Homer the nature of the artist . 1986. 1 videocassette (29 min.). A biographical sketch of Winslow Homer, concerned chiefly with his life as an artist; illustrated with the viewing of many of his watercolors and paintings and of the locales that inspired these works. VHS 3567

The yellow gash: Jean-Paul Sartre on Tintoretto . Portrait of an artist. 1984. 1 videocassette (65 min.). Sartre's words guide us through this exploration of Tintoretto's decorative panels and vast frescoes, all situated in Venice. Sartre is fascinated by Tintoretto's rebellion against 16th century convention and by his innovative style. VHS 333

Page Created by Media Services