Media Collection
Guide / George Mason University
Libraries
ART: Artists
Ana Mendieta.
Chronicles the life and work of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta.
Includes an interview with the artist by Tony Martinez. Also
includes interviews with her family, friends and colleagues.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6605.M44 A44 1987
Arshile Gorky.
Explores the life and work of twentieth-century
Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky through archival
footage and photographs, supplemented with readings from
his letters and interviews with family and associates. Shows
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237 .A78
Art and the left.
Artists discuss the impact of different aspects of the 60's (for
example, the Vietnam War, the women's movement, and the
rise of pop art) on their development.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6512 .A68 1993
The Artist was a woman.
A rediscovery of over 400 years of painting by women artists
from the Renaissance to the midtwentieth century. Includes
readings from the artists' personal writings and from those of
their contemporaries.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Call Number: N8354 .A77 1981
Benny Andrew's.
A self styled innovator, this African-American artist, Benny
Andrew's, creates collages and paintings of stunning
humanity. Growing up in the 1930's his family were share
croppers. Through his drawings, paintings, and collages, he
has shown a light on the invisible people.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.A643 B46
Black artists in America.
Presenting seven of the greatest African-American Painters in
the United States. These respected artists discuss aesthetic
and technical aspects of their visual expressions as well as
American. African and European experiences as artists.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6538.N5 B63 pts.1-4
Breaking free of the earth.
Based on the exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum in
Amsterdam, 1989. This program 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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6999.M34 B7 1990
Children as authors, children as illustrators.
This program shows how children in the classroom can use
imagemaking within the writing process to create thier own
illustrated stories.
Johnson Center Videotapes
LB1528 .C453
Dante's inferno.
A dramatic portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the poet/painter,
which portrays the public actions and private hell of the
London Italian.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1997 .D365
David Rabinowitch.
American artist David Rabinowitch discusses his work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.R33 D38
Deborah Remington.
Abstract painter Deborah Remington discusses her art and her
success in today's competitive art world.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.R46 D4
Elaine Marinoff.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Call Number: N6537.M37 E63
Emma Amos.
Emma Anos, an African American artist, talks about her life and her art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.A469 E66
Faith Ringgold paints Crown Heights.
Faith Ringgold details the creation of the quilt she created to
represent the diverse cultures and traditions comprising the
area of Crown Heights in New York city.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.R55 F25 1995
Faith Ringgold.
A profile of the life and work of Faith Ringgold, noted
Afro-American woman artist who specializes in painting on
quilts and other cloth surfaces.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.R55 F26 1991
Four artists.
Interviews with four creators of minimalist art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6494.M5 F687 1987
Frida Kahlo (1910-1954)
Profiles Frida Kahlo's work, her interest in politics and her
tempestuous relationship with husband Diego Rivera, leader
of the Mexican muralist movement.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND259.K33 F74 1983
Frida
A biographical film about Frida Kohla, a painter, revolutionary
and woman of the world.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
PN1997 .F75 1989
Geri Taper.
Geri Taper discusses her experiences in art and her evolution to
environmental art, where she paints the environment of buildings.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.T36 G4
Goya, his life and art.
Chronicles Francisco Goya's life and times through his art. His
paintings, drawings, and tapestries reveal the full scope of his
artistry and innovation, marking the visible turn from the past
to the present in modern art. Pays homage to such works as
the Caprices, the Disasters of War, the Tauromaquia and the
Proverbs, and the Dos de Mayo.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND813.G7 G69
Guerrillas in our midst.
Gallery owners comment on the actions of a group of
anonymous women artists who call themselves the Guerrilla
Girls. Also interviewed are members of the Guerilla Girls, who,
dressed in gorrilla masks, work to promote greater
representation of women and minority artists in art exhibitions.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6505 .G84 1992
Hand carved.
Follows Chester Cornett as he cuts down a tree on the site of
his family home in Appalachia, transports the wood to
Cincinnati where he lives, and builds an eight-legged double
rocker by hand. Explores the economic hardships facing many
folk artists today.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NK9798.C67 H36 1991
Hands of history.
Four aboriginal women artists bring different experiences, each
from different artistic medium. All share in the life of the artist,
in the creation of beauty, in the expression of culture and in
the recording and examination of history. A powerful and
evocative journey of colour and sound. The film pays tribute
to their art, their vision, and the role they have played in
maintaining the voice of aboriginal culture.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E89 .H363 1994
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
Call Number: ND238 .N5
Howard Finster.
Profile of artist Howard Finster, whose religious-inspired works
appear not only in art galleries, but on covers of recordings by
rock groups such as R.E.M. and the Talking Heads. Includes
interviews with the artist as well as art critics, gallery operators
and musicians.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.F464 H68
Jackson Pollock.
Presents a documentary portrait of abstract expressionist
painter Jackson Pollock. Includes anecdotes about the artist
as remembered by fellow artists, friends, and his wife; views
from his early years; studies of his work that reveal Pollock's
changing style of expression; and excerpts from the painter's
private writings.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237 .P73
Jeanne Miles.
Painter Jeanne Miles discusses the mandala and its influence
in her art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.M56 J4
John Baldessari.
Presented without commentary, this film reveals the thinking
behind the work of John Baldessari over the course of his
career, and provides clues to the understanding of the artist's
paintings, photographic work and books. What emerges is a
portrait of a thoughtful, quietly rebellious artist who has
influenced a large number of younger artists over the last
twenty years, and who has clearly followed his own path in the
exploration of the territory which he embarked upon in the late
60's.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.B17 J64 1990
John Biggers' journey.
Prominent Afro-American artist John T. Biggers talks about his life and its influence on his drawings and paintings.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.B52 J636 1995
John James Audubon.
Discusses the life and art of John James Audubon, 19th
century American naturalist and artist. Includes quotations
from Audubon's journals. Illustrated with his original drawings,
engravings, etc. interwoven with live motion nature
photography.
Johnson Center Videotapes
QL31.A9 J65
Karen Finley.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.F467 K37 1990
Käthe Kollwitz
The life and works of German artist Käthe Kollwitz.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6888.K62 K38
Kenny Scharf
Interview with artist Kenny Scharf.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.S35 K4
Magic wool
Portraits of peasant women who stitch tapestries in wool
depicting scenes and events of their everyday lives on Isla
Negra, Chile.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NK4712.5 .M33 1995
Max Ernst
This film focuses on the period Ernst lived in the United States,
between 1941 and 1952. Using photographs, film footage,
and tape recordings, it details the influence of the Arizona
desert and the Hopi Indians on his work.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6888.E7 M39
The Misfits.
Film portrays a group of artists who since the early 1960s have
completely disrupted our ideas of what art can be. In large
part filmed in Venice in 1990, when many of the original
Fluxus artists met to hold a large exhibition almost 30 years
after the first highly untraditional Fluxus' performances.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6494.F55 M58 1993
Monet.
"Letters, journals, interviews and timeless images profile this
Impressionist's lifelong quest to capture on canvas nature's
kaleidoscope of light and color."
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND553.M7 M66 1989
Motherwell/Alberti.
Inspired by Spanish poet Rafael Alberti's, poem A la pintura,
artist Robert Motherwell relays how he conceptualized the
text into a series of aquaprints to illustrate the work. Also,
technical methods used to arrive at certain colors are
demonstrated by the artist. The master craftsman who helped
transform Motherwell's colors and delicate compositions into
aquatints is Don Steward.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.M852 M6
Pam McCormick.
Pam McCormick discusses her art which deals with the
environment and nature. Featured are her floating sculptures.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NB237.M33 P36
Persistent women artists.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N8354 .P47 1996
Puerto Rico.
Traces the themes and characteristics present in the plastic
arts of Puerto Rico which represent a search for the Puerto
Rican identity.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6612 .P84
Shock of the new.
Focuses on modernism in art as a reflection of changing social
history in the 20th century. Includes interviews with, among
others, Matisse, Picasso, and Dali.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6490 .S5
Silence=death.
Explores the reactions of New York's artistic community to the
ravages of AIDS.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.D6 S56
Thomas Eakins.
Combines dramatic re-creation with documentary photographs,
interviews, and archival footage to tell the story of Eakins's
life.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237 .E15 1986
Women artists
Join NMWA founder Wilhelmina Holladay on a captivating tour
ofNMWA's famous permanent collection, comprised of works
by women artists from the renaissance to the present. Then
experience the range of NMWA's offerings with tours of these
outstanding shows: Ten contemporary Korean women artists;
Voices of freedom; Polish women artists and avant-garde,
1880-1990; Arkansas and state exhibitions; and Breaking the
rules: Audrey Flack, a retrospective.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N43 .W66 1990
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Last reviewed May, 2002