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ART: Art Videos
1492 revisited.
The 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to the "New World" has
prompted renewed debate about this momentous event. A challenging view of
the quincentenary is offered in an art exhibition titled "Counter Colon-Ialismo."
In this exhibition, several artists portray the fact that there are alternate
versions of history and alternate experiences of that history.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E119.2 .A15 1992
20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum.
Devoted to the inaugural installation of 20th century art in the Lila Acheson
Wallace Wing at the Metropolitan Museum. Part 1 covers 1900 to 1940, Part
2 1940 to present. Displays selections from more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures,
works on paper, and objects of design and architecture created by
American and European artists in this century.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6512 .T84
500 definitions of art.
The definitions, alternating between a male and female voice, are creatively
juxtaposed with hundreds of different artworks, a combination of sound effects,
and an imaginative audio soundtrack. The tape draws in people who are already
knowledgeable about art, as well as those with little or no artistic experience.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N70 .F58
African American art.
Rare and historical photographs, beautiful reproductions of paintings, sculpture
and crafts, and brilliant musical selections combine to make this an outstanding
educational program for children and adults.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6538.N5 A34 1992
American art today.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6535.N5 A54
American visions.
Presents a glimpse of 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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6505.A629 1997
Anamorphosis.
Using animation the film examines an artistic technique which plays with
the relationship between the eye and what it sees. Anamorphosis involves
the distortium of an image so that it can only be viewed without distortium
from a certain angle.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7433.6 .A63 1991
Art and revolution-- Mexico.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6555 .A78
Art in the age of Alfonso el Sabio.
During the reign of Alfonso el Sabio ("Alfonso the learned") art
and intellectual endeavor flourished in Spain. Alfonso's reign marked the
end of the Romanesque style and the flourishing of Gothic art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7103 .A77 1990
Art in the making.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND547.5.I4 A7 1990
Art meets science and spirituality in a changing economy.
Artists, scientists, spiritual leaders and economists gathered at the Stedelijk
Museum in Amsterdam in September, 1990 to explore the emerging paradigm
of a holistic world view and the implications for a global economy. The
5-day conference was inspired by influential Germany artist, Joseph Beuys,
and French Fluxus artist, Robert Filliou, who felt that artists have a responsibility
to inspire a broader vision of our changing world. After the death of Beuys
and Filliou, Dutch artist and writer Louwrien Wijers manifested this unique
event, calling it "a mental sculpture." This video series is drawn
from the conference and from interviews with the participants at their homes
and workplaces throughout the world.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N72.S6 A78
The Art of the Dogon.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7399.M3 A781 1988
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
Art on film, film on art.
Explores innovative ways to present art through moving image media. Each
program begins with a conversation between filmmakers and art experts who
explore ideas about collaboration as well as ideas about filmmaking. Each
cassette includes three films, grouped to stimulate discussion of the themes
introduced in the conversation.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N72.M6 A77 1992
The Bauhaus.
Everything we think of as modern in style originated in this extraordinary school of design, where painters,
architects,craftsmen and engineers first joined together to humanize the products of machines.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N332.G33 B453
Borobudur.
Describes history of Borobudur, and the current effort to clean, restore and renew this structure.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NA6026.6.B6 B6
British art and society's mirror.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NX343 .B7 1994
The Centre Georges Pompidou.
Documentary on this modern center for the arts, which opened in Paris in
1977, and attracts thousands of visitors daily.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NA6813.F82 P37281 1987
Chicano Park.
Under the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge is Chicano Park and its murals.
This is the story of its creation and a history of the community.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E184.M5 C55
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
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
Chinese paper-cuts.
Introduces the traditional Chinese folk-art of papercutting. Covers the
developmental history of papercutting and its
different branches, and includes pictorial explanations and practical demonstrations.
Johnson Center Videotapes
TT870 .C4 1991
Christo in Paris.
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 to inspired as a finished work of art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7193.C5 C45 1990
Christo's Valley curtain.
Examines the construction of the Mammoth Valley curtain, a 500-foot-high
veil stretched across Rifle Gap, Colo., by the Bulgarian artist Christo.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7193.C5 C4
Collecting America.
A celebration of Electra Havemeyer Webb's collection of American art pieces
from the Shelburne Museum in Vermont and an appreciation of ordinary objects
made by ordinary people.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NK803 .C64
A Conversation.
A newly restored documentation of a conversation held by the three artists
at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York in which the possibilities for artists'
use of satellite technology are introduced.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6489 .C66 1973
The country of the twelve peoples(The Etruscans).
Surveys the first Italian civilization, that of the Etruscans, particularly
the influence of the Greeks on the Etruscans and their own later influence on the Romans. Briefly discusses the history of
Etruria; shows tombs, ruins of cities, frescoes, and statuary; the stresses
the vitality of Etruscan art
Johnson Center Videotapes
DE86 .C53 no.7
The Cubist epoch.
Surveys cubist art in the context of its period by focusing on The cubist
epoch exhibition originally shown at the Los Angeles County Art Museum and
the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Examines works by Picasso, Braque, Gris,
Léger, and others.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6848.5.C82 C82 1986
Degenerate art.
Describes Nazi attacks on the avant garde and their desecration of modernist
art culminating in the 1937 exhibition of "Entartete Kunst" (degenerate art) in Munich. The film also
describes the opening of the Haus der Kunst and the Nazi approved art it
exhibited. Produced in conjunction with the 1991 Los Angeles County Museum
reconstruction of the "degenerate art" exhibition, which assembled
more than 150 surviving masterworks from the original show and gathered
photographic documentation, motion-picture footage and the recollections
of witnesses of the time.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6868.5.N37 D43 1995
Discovering the art of Korea.
Traces the history of Korean art from its early beginnings.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7360 .D5
Dream machine.
Presents computer graphics techniques and applications such as CAD, architecture
and other subject areas.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
T385 .D73
Dreamings.
This is a journey to the scarred heartlands and lush mangroves of Australia
to see traditional Aboriginal artists at work Explores the meaning behind works of immense beauty, ranging from acrylic
dot paintings of the Central Desert to cross hatched bark paintings and burial poles from Northern Australia.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1101 .D74
Dutch art in its own environment.
Examines the relationship between art and everyday life and the landscape
in the Netherlands.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6946 .D88 1992
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
The Emperor's eye.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7343.5 .E66
The fine art of faking it.
"This program looks at some of the uses of science in the interest
of art. It shows how museums are using scientists to
detect forgeries and give insight into the process of artistic creation."
--container.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N72.S3 F5 1991
The First emperor of China
Offers close-up views of the magnificent burial complex of Qin Shi Huang
Di, the third century BC ruler who unified China and built the Great Wall.
An aerial flyby tour of the wall, original footage of the excavation's first
days, a museum tour, and other 2,000 still-frame images of the 7,000 life-size
terracotta warriors and horses that stand guard over the tomb are only a
few of the features of this disc.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
DS747.9.C47 F5
From reliable sources.
Describes the letters, photographs and other documents available from the
collections of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Call Number: N6505 .F765
Glories of medieval art : the Cloisters.
Phillipe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum, tours its treasure
house on the Hudson of medieval art and architecture, showing the Romanesque
and Gothic spaces and many of the art objects they hold, including the famed
Unicorn Tapestries.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N611.C6 G56 1989
Golub.
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND237.G59 G6
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
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
The Imagination machines.
Kadeem Hardison hosts this documentary about how interactive media is being
used in the fields of art and art
education.
Johnson Center Videotapes
LB1028.75 .I42 1991
The impact of Dutch art on its environment.
This program shows the role of city planners, architects, sculptors, and
landscape designers in creating an environment that--much of the time, at least--makes the best of available
options in our post-industrial age.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6946 .I66 1992
Impressionism in art and music.
Following an introduction by Roya Megnot, the first part outlines the basic
principles of impressionism as practiced by Monet and Debussy. The second
part extends the discussion to other artists and composers and seeks to
relate the achievements of impressionism to developments in modern music and modern
art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND547.5.I4 I5
In the shadow of the sun.
A series of slow moving pictures of fire and people within fires, of positive
and negative film, presented as art on video.
Johnson Center Videotapes
PN1995.9.A73 I6
The Invisible made visible.
Examines symbolism and allegory in Dutch art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6946 .I68 1992
Islands.
Documentary of Christo's project to surround for two weeks several islands
in Biscayne Bay in a pink plastic fabric. Includes footage of two other projects, the Pont Neuf and the Reichstag.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Call Number: N7193.C5 I7
Light of the gods.
Explores the evolution of Greek representational art from stylized stick
figures of the Geometric period to carved and painted images of man of the early classical era.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Call Number: N5630 .L5 1988
Louvre videodisc.
Presents paintings, drawings, sculpture, and objets d'art from antiquity
through the middle of the 19th century chosen from the 7 departments of
the Louvre Museum. Motion sequences with narration illustrate a number of
the most important masterpieces.
Johnson Center Videodiscs
Call Number: N2030 .A756 1989
Lürzer's int'l archive.
Johnson Center Videotapes
HF5801 .L87
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 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
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
My hands are the tools of my soul.
Shows American Indian artists at work and examines their carvings, pottery,
song, and dance in relation to their society.
Johnson Center Videotapes
E98.A7 M96 1975
New public art.
Works by Joyce Kozloff, whose tile decorations are being commissioned for
public buildings across the country; Keith Haring, a New York City graffiti artist, whose drawings are familiar to
New York subway riders, and John Ahearn, whose works include painted plastic
life casts, are examined. A short interview with N.Y.C. Cultural Affairs
Commissioner Henry Geldzahler and a dedication speech by John Ahearn are
included.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6535.N5 N33
New ways of seeing Picasso, Braque, and the Cubist revolution.
Documents the extraordinary exhibition mounted by The Museum of Modern Art
and presents a rare and provocative view of Cubism and the inspired collaboration of Picasso and Braque.
Johnson Center Videotapes
ND1265 .N4
New world visions.
Surveys American art from 1650-1914 using the collection of the American
Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a point of departure.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6505 .N415
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
Painted landscapes of the times.
Shows the outrage over political, social, and economic injustices seen in
artist Sue Coe's expressionistic work which identifies with the victims of rape, war, vivisection, and protest. Includes
a spirited excange between the artist and a group of students.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.C63 P35
Process, passion, and perfection.
Interview with artist Jackie Winsor.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NB237.W55 P7
A question of art.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N70 .W37 1994
Researching the arts in multimedia.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6485 .I581 1989
Robert Motherwell and the New York School.
This program from the PBS American masters series explores the Abstract
Expressionist movement and presents a portrait of its most important artist:
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). Featured are Motherwell's last major interview,
archival footage and photographs of other maverick artists (Jackson Pollock,
Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline), of Greenwich Village where
they lived, and of events that shaped their lives. Also includes interviews
with art critics and historians.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N6537.M67 A4 1990
Romanticism in art and music.
Following and on-camera introduction by Roya Megnot, introduces the main
elements of romanticism as reflected in works of art and music of that period. Shows the influence of literature
on art. Contains excerpts from romantic musical works.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NX454.5.R6 R6
Running fence
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.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7193.C5 R8 1978
Sacred art of Tibet. The visible compendium.
Art and sculpture depicting Tibetan deities. Presents some history of beliefs
with appropriate background chants. The visible compendium is a collage animation.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N8193.T5 S33
Santeros, saintmakers.
Documents the lifestyle and attitudes of five New Mexican artisans who continue
the 300-year old traditions of the
earliest santeros.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NK9712 .S36 1986
Screen printing
Several British artists demonstrate techniques used in screen printing,
and discuss why they have chosen to work in this medium.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NE539 .S39
Shock of the new.
8 videorecordings (VHS) (416 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
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
The Tournament.
Helmut Nickel, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's great collection
of arms and armor, displays some of it's treasures and discusses the age that created them.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NK6602.N5 M472
The traditional crafts of Japan.
Johnson Center Videotapes
Call Number: NK1071 .T73 1992
Treasures of the Holy Land.
This tour gives the viewer a rich sampling of artifacts, sculpture, jewelry,
mosaics and household objects recalling over ten thousand years of the Holy
Land's somber and joyous history.
Johnson Center Videotapes
DS111.A1 T73 1986
Venice.
This videodisc contains the award winning program, Vidal in Venice. He brings
back some of the history of Venice, as well as is an excellent tour guide.
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
The virtual database.
Discusses the Getty Art History Information Program's efforts in database
standardization for art history research.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N58 .V57 1994
Vita Futurista
Attempts to institute an historical and cultural context for the futurist
movement in Italy from the early 1900's to the 1930's and examines its fate
today.
Johnson Center Videotapes
NC998.45 .V58 1987
Yaaba soore
African masks, seen as museum pieces don't convey the power and beauty that
they do in their native environment. This film shows African masks from
the country of Burkina Faso in West Africa in their proper context, as used
in the ritual dances of the people of this region.
Johnson Center Videotapes
N7399.B8 Y3 1986
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Last reviewed May, 2002