Media Collection Guide / George Mason University Libraries
ART: Art History
Art in the making.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND547.5.I4 A7 1990

Art of the Western world.
Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture. Studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N5300 A786

Il Ballarino.
Authentic Renaissance court dances and the gestures and step vocabulary associated with them are demonstrated and described by noted dance historian and musicologist Julia Sutton from dance manuals of the 16th century Italian masters Fabritio Caroso and Cesare Negri.
Johnson Center Videotapes
CB351 .I55

Bauhaus.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N332.G33 B45 1994

Black dawn.
Uses the animated paintings of fourteen Haitian artists to depict the history of Haiti from slavery to independence from
French rule.
Johnson Center Videotapes
F1921 .B63

Bridge to the East.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N8189.B9 R86 1987

China's cosmopolitan age.
Presents an overview of China's T\ang dynasty, its history, civilization, arts, and culture, A.D. 618-907.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DS749.3 .C45

Civilisation.
Johnson Center Videotapes
CB68.C6 C5

Discovering the art of Korea.
Traces the history of Korean art from its early beginnings.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7360 .D5

Eighteenth century art and music.
Part 1 deals with 18th-century art and music up to the French Revolution. Part 2 deals with the years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ML195 .E35 1986

The Eighteenth century woman.
Looks at an exhibit at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art entitled The eighteenth century woman, a vast collection of costumes, accessories, and objets d'art that reveal the unique ways in which fashionable eighteenth-century women made their presence felt in the society, art, and politics of their time.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NX652.W6 E44

Garth Fagan's Griot New York
Following brief interviews with Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis, the program includes a complete performance of Griot New York. The concept of a griot, a West African storyteller who keeps the cultural heritage of a people alive, is used to depict the non-European culture of New York City, and particularly the African and Caribbean backgrounds of some of its residents.
Johnson Center Videotapes
GV1783 .G37 1995

Hidden heritage.
Traces the work of Black American artists from the American Revolution to World War II. Places the artists' individual achievements in the context of social change, abolition of slavery, Jim Crow laws, racial violence and segregation. Johnson Center Videotapes
ND238 .N5

Medieval art and music.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N5970 .M44 1986

The Museum of Modern Art.
A history of New Yorks Museum of Modern Art includes interviews with Lucy Lippard, art critic, Leon Golub, artist, Philip Johnson, architect, Linda Nochlin, art historian and Kirk Varnadoe, a director of the museum.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N620.M9 M9

The National Gallery of Art
Presents America's art collection: its origins, the magnificent collections and a guided tour of the galleries.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
N856 .N327

Of race and blood.
A documentary on the art and artists of the Third Reich and Adolph Hitler's plan for art as in important part of the Nazi machine.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6868.5.N37 O5

Passionate visions of the American South
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6520 .P38

Scraps of life.
This video presents stories from the mothers, sisters and wives of persons "detained-dissappeared" in Chile under President Pinochet. They sew murals out of scraps of fabrics (arpilleras) that record Chile's bloody history.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HQ1236.5.C5 S37

Süleyman the Magnificent.
Explores the breathtaking palaces and mosques of the Ottoman Empire and focuses on the dramatic life and personality of Sultan Süleyman.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DR506 .S858 1987

Surveying the first decade.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6512.5.V53 S87

Venice.
This videodisc contains the award winning program, Vidal in Venice. Also included are 934 still pictures of Venice's art and architecture.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
DG674.2 .V43 1991

Vienna 1900
Vienna 1900 reveals a society lost in the pleasures of its glittering empire, but teetering on the brink of a revolution in thought that would change the world forever.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6810 .V5

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