Summary: Praised by the New York Times at the time of her death as one of the world's foremost sculptors, Barbara Hepworth left a legacy of creations that continues to inspire new generations of artists. This program reveals the beauty and the power of her sculptures through footage of her naturalistic carvings of the 1920s, her increasingly abstract sculptures of the '30s, her ambitious postwar works,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Loved by the public and spurned by its creator, Rodin's The Kiss remains controversial to this day. While telling the remarkably intricate story of how the sculpture came to be, this program illustrates the impact of Michelangelo's and Ghiberti's works on Rodin's artistic sensibilities, comments on Rodin's relationships, sketches out the character of the times, sheds light on The Kiss's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Promoted in its time as a celebration—or at least a fully informed study—of foreign ethnicities and customs, the 1900 World’s Fair is recognized today as a spectacle of Eurocentric myopia. This program lays bare that conceit as it interweaves archival photographs, film clips, and posters from the Fair with commentary from renowned art historians. Offerings from museum collections across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Beneath its apparent thematic simplicity, Edouard Vuillard's The Public Gardens raises numerous historic and technical questions that this program seeks to resolve. Entries from Vuillard's journal unify the narrative as it travels from his art education, to his painting technique, to the effects of symbolist theater on his work, to his practice of photography-all of which shed light on or are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Concerned primarily with the sociopolitical history of art, scholar T. J. Clark has, in the past, come into conflict with critic Michael Fried, a proponent of aesthetically based views of painting and sculpture. This program documents a discussion of two Jackson Pollock works in which Clark and Fried strive for common ground. Studying Lavender Mist, both commentators remark on the compressed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: A quarter-century following the death of Abstract Expressionist firebrand Jackson Pollock, renowned critic Clement Greenberg and art historian T. J. Clark sat down to discuss the legendary painter's career, working methods, and legacy. This program documents their talk, focusing on Pollock's work from the mid-1940s onward and highlighting Greenberg's firsthand observations of the artist in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Enigmatic and remote, yet very much present and perhaps all too real: that is the Little Dancer Aged 14, by Degas. Beginning with information on the artist's life, this program brings to light the genesis of Degas' immortal wax sculpture, background on the unusual model who posed for it, and the uproar the piece caused at its debut, where it stood at stark odds with the ideas of feminine beauty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Famous for sculptures that combine fluidity with monolithic bulk, Richard Serra favors two basic materials: compressed steel, which he manipulates in a factory setting, and the natural spaces found at his installation sites. This program takes viewers inside Serra's creative process while documenting his work at locations across the globe. Featuring detailed interviews with the artist-and with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Roe, Sue
Summary: When young Pablo Picasso arrived in Paris in October 1900 he made his way up the hillside of Montmartre ... The real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills-- artificial and real-- and in the cafes and cabarets of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ROESummary: Despite his famous quip about the enduring patience of his client, the man known as "God's architect" never intended his masterpiece, La Sagrada Familia, to remain unfinished 80 years after his death. This program examines efforts to bring Antonio Gaudi's work to completion in a manner consistent with his original goals and ideas. Viewers meet Mark Burry, the New Zealand architect charged with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Born Helmut Herzfeld in 1891, John Heartfield adopted his English name to protest the rise of German nationalism during the first world war-one of many symbolic gestures that defined the artist's uncompromising career. This biographical program begins in Heartfield's native Berlin and progresses through his painful childhood, his involvement in the Dadaist movement, his friendships with Bertolt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Segment one of this program addresses the anxiety and suffering surrounding World War I through Sir William Orpen's Zonnebeke, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Bird Swallowing a Fish, and Max Beckman's Carnival. Segment two reflects on the fear and anguish of World War II with Salvador Dali's Mountain Lake and Francis Bacon's triptych Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion. Segment three...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Instead of offering an idealized or ennobled vision of humankind, modern art-an instrument of the tumultuous 20th century-communicates chaos, anxiety, and above all, uncertainty. In this program, Matthew Collings contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso with the abstracts of Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian and the architecture of Le Corbusier; tells how the Nazis tried to eradicate modern art's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Segment one of this program offers Marcel Duchamp's urinal-cum-readymade Fountain, Michael Craig-Martin's glass of water entitled Oak Tree, and Rebecca Horn's Concert for Anarchy, a grand piano suspended upside-down, as an invitation to look at everyday things in a new way. Segment two introduces minimalism through Carl Andre's brick pile Equivalent VIII and Cornelia Parker's Thirty Pieces of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This program offers a rare examination of the life and work of Mark Rothko. Rothko gave abstraction the emotional power of music and poetry. He painted ideas rather than objects and, in the process, created a deeply original pictorial language. One of the most important artists of his generation, Rothko is perhaps best known for his work in the style of the New York School and was a peer of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Weidemann, Christiane.
Summary: A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition. Biographical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.22 WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.22 WEISummary: This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Professor Fred Orton of the University of Leeds has a long and distinguished history as an interpreter of Jasper Johns' work. In this program, Orton looks at Flag, the mid-1950s painting that established Johns as a central figure on the postmodern art landscape; he also closely examines one of the artist's most recent paintings, Catenary (Jacob's Ladder) Through his exploration of these works,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character in favor of the ultra-objective phenomenon known as Pop Art. This program examines: Franz Kline's C & O
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In his garden at Giverny, Monet created a vast canvas to research his landscape paintings. He had a Japanese bridge built over the pond, which he covered with water lilies. Anxious to render every variation of light over the bridge, water, foliage, and flowers consistent with the season and time of day, Monet worked simultaneously on several canvases and returned to them again and again. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: An outgrowth of Fauvism, Expressionism emphasized color's emotional properties while demonstrating far less concern than the Fauves had with the formal and structural composition of color. Contemporary Neo-Expressionism has further developed this artistic approach.This program examines: Edvard Munch's Ashes
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Under the direction of Paloma Chamorro, this RTVE production explores the life, works, and epoch of one of Spain's most beloved painters, utilizing images from his pictures, drawings, and exclusive imprints. Avoiding polemic interpretations of Goya's creations, it presents his work within the context of the events of his life and the period in which they were painted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This superb dramatization of the life and artistic development of the great painter shows a wide array of his works in the context of the time and place at which they were created. Using the writings of John Russell to provide commentary and artistic analysis, the program provides a delicate portrait of the painter whose experiments with light influenced a whole generation of Impressionists,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A moment of intense erotic union? A secular icon of the sublime? A feminist tableau in which a woman coolly disengages from a man's overheated desire? A tribute to someone special? This program debates the possibilities as it places Gustav Klimt's The Kiss within the context of Klimt's sexually charged life and fin de siecle Vienna, a locus of creative energy and societal double standards....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008