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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Last reviewed May, 2002