Media Collection Guide / George Mason University Libraries
ART: Multimedia (Art Titles)
Ancient Egyptian art.
An overview of 100 works from the Museum, accompanied by descriptive information contributed by the Museum's staff of Egyptologists.
Johnson Center Multimedia
N5335.B72 B76 1994

The Anglo-Saxons.
Johnson Center Multimedia
DA132.2 .A64 1993

Cinema Volta.
Composed of 12 stories which details the diverse accomplishments and strange lives of great inventors of the 19th century in an artistic and personal presentation.
Johnson Center Multimedia
T39 .P38

Coate's art review.
A tutorial on Impressionism that uses Textware search and retrieval software to access text and reproductions of photographs and paintings.
Johnson Center Multimedia
ND192.I4 C63 1994

Comic book confidential.
Combines interviews, historical footage, animations and montages of comic book art to trace the development of the comic book from 1933 through counterculture favorites to the hippest representatives of the 1980's revival. Includes 22 featured artists.
Johnson Center Multimedia
PN6710 .M36 1994

Eadweard Muybridge.
Contains over 900 plates and 134 animated sequences from Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographic studies of movement.
Johnson Center Multimedia
TR647.M89 E33 1990

Emile de Antonio's Painters painting.
A collective portrait of figures who powered the post-war New York art scene. Includes a 1-hour-and-fifty-six minute doucmentary film; unedited transcripts of each artist's interview; examples of each artist's work; introductions to each artist by Douglas Kellner; excerpts from de Antonio's journal, and his complete filmography; and a tour of the Metropolitan exhibition, "New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970," by Ron Mann with a soundtrack by John Cage.
Johnson Center Multimedia
N6512 .P272 1996

Exotic Japan.
165 lessons and quizzes which teach about Japanese history, culture, arts, current events and language including information on everything from the bullet train to the exchange of business cards. Interactive program guides the user through proper pronunciation with entertaining musical passages and clever sound effects complementing the lessons and game.
Johnson Center Multimedia
DS821 .Y65 1994

The First emperor of China.
Presents the treasures of the tomb complex of Qin Shi Huang Di, the First Emperor of China, with original film footage of the first days of the excavation, a tour through the Qin Museum of Warriors and Horses, aerial motion photography of the Great Wall, bilingual Chinese-English commentary by the head of the excavation team and other scholars.
Johnson Center Multimedia
DS747.9.C47 F5

French posters from World War I.
Database of 284 posters created by French artists to support the war effort during World War I. Organized by subject with detailed descriptions of each image. Includes thumbnail, zoom, bookmark, and print features.
Johnson Center Multimedia
D522.25 .L53

The grammar of ornament.
Johnson Center Multimedia
NK1510.J66 G7 1995

Great paintings, Renaissance to impressionism.
Includes 241 full-color images of paintings from the Frick. Each is accompanied by descriptive information as well as biographies of the artists by Joseph Goldyne.
Johnson Center Multimedia
N620.F6 A633 1994

Leonardo da Vinci.
Contains Leonardo da Vinci's complete painted works, selected drawings, and supporting reference materials. Includes analysis of painting technique and materials.
Johnson Center Multimedia
ND623.L5 L4 1995

Masterworks of Japanese painting.
Includes over 350 paintings from the Edo period, accompanied by descriptive text and comments by Mr. Price.
Johnson Center Multimedia
ND1053.5 .M37 1995

Michelangelo.
Takes a close look at the life and work of Michelangelo. Follows his turbulent life through the courts of power, artistic circles and many other adventures. The various facets of his biography are interwoven with profiles and detailed analysis of his major works, with reference to his accomplishments in sculpture, paintings, architecture and literature.
Johnson Center Multimedia
N6923.B9 M523 1995

Microsoft Art gallery.
Multimedia information on artists represented in the National Gallery, London, including 2,000 color reproductions of paintings, information about the artists and their works, spoken names of artists, and animations.
Johnson Center Multimedia
N1070 .A766 1994

A passion for art.
A tour of the private Barnes Foundation collection of post-impressionist paintings. The user can explore each room of the foundation's collection, view paintings full screen or in detail, examine papers from the archives of the Barnes Foundation, and display the paintings as a slide show.
Johnson Center Multimedia
ND547.5.I4 P37 1995

Paul Cézanne.
Cezanne guides you through his studio and four other virtual environments. Explore the stylistic and technical aspects of Cezanne's art through many engrossing narratives. View hundreds of magnificent works of art in exquisite detail. Zoom in to examine brushwork and colors.
Johnson Center Multimedia
ND553.C33 P38 1996

Perseus 2.0.
A multimedia interactive database designed to facilitate the study of archaic and classical Greece and to expand the ways in which ancient Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology can be examined. Contains an extensive archaeological catalog with about 25,000 accompanying images.
Johnson Center Multimedia
DF77 .P47 1996

Robert Mapplethorpe.
The multimedia presentation provides a critical overview of Mapplethorpe's work, supplemented with video interviews of the artist and his contemporaries.
Johnson Center Multimedia
TR654 .M3372 1995

Sacred and secular.
Includes 100 black-and-white images.
Johnson Center Multimedia
TR660 .B75 1996

The Sistine Chapel.
Detailed views of the frescos on the walls and ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, painted by such masters as Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Signorelli, Pinturicchio, and Michelangelo, with cross references to the Bible stories illustrated in the paintings.
Johnson Center Multimedia
ND2757.V35 S58 1996

A Survey of western art.
Johnson Center Multimedia
N5301 .S9 1994

Truths & fictions.
Meyer's photographs challenge notions about where photographic "truths" leave off and "fictions" begin. The digital revolution is discussed by people from 18 countries.
Johnson Center Multimedia
TR267.M4 T7 1995

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Developed and maintained by Thomas Herndon, Multimedia and Interdisciplinary Programs Librarian at the George Mason University Libraries.
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Last reviewed May, 2002