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2) Man Ray
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the biography of artist Emmanuel Radnitsky [sic] [Radenski], known as Man Ray.
3) Alice Neel
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 82 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alice Neel was one of the great portrait painters of the 20th century. She reinvented the genre of portraiture by expressing the inner landscape of her varied sitters, among them Andy Warhol, Annie Sprinkle, Bella Abzug, and Allen Ginsberg. Filmmaker Andrew Neel, Alice Neel’s grandson, puts together the pieces of the painter's personal life and career to tell Neel’s story, exploring the struggles she faced as a woman artist, a single mother, and...
Publisher
GoodTimes Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bruce Le stars in this colorful, action-packed film about the tragically short life of his legendary lookalike and namesake, Bruce Lee. In between gruelling lessons with his revered kung fu master, the young Bruce battles for his life in the city streets.
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
c2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the fascinating, often hilarious, and always enigmatic world of artist and underground icon Ray Johnson whose mysterious suicide frames the film. He was considered a genius whose collages have been exhibited in major museums around the world.
Publisher
Becoming Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (24:25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ilona R. Smithkin is a portrait artist and also a survivor of the German holocaust. How does she think of the past? She tries not to remember, and in this way she forgets. The focus is the present, concentrating on her art. Her reply is often, "This is not the time to discuss this."
Publisher
Warner Home Video/Turner
Pub. Date
[2006], c1956
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.
9) Edvard Munch
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
A biography of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world.
10) Leonie
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true life story of Leonie Gilmour, whose life crossed continents, wars, and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedom. A tender and inspiring story of a remarkable woman who nurtures the amazing artistic talent of her son, who has only one way to succeed and one person to guide him, as he grows into the world-renowned artist Isamu Noguchi.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With joy, humor, and heart-warming earnestness, Sundance award-winning director Alexandria Bombach brings us into a contemporary conversation with Amy and Emily—alongside decades of the band’s home movies and intimate present-day verité.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Known for his vibrant reinterpretations of classical portraits featuring African-American men, New York-based painter Kehinde Wiley has turned the practice of portraiture on its head and in the process has taken the art world by storm.
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's painful past. An intimate exploration of the lingering wounds of war and the healing power of community and art.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the life and work of Camille Pissarro, the West-Indian born leader of the original Impressionists and the only artist from that school to exhibit at all eight of the exhibitions from 1874 to 1886. A considerable influence on Cezanne and Gauguin at the beginning of their careers, Pissarro's great works include the famous Boulevard Montmartre which hangs today in the National Gallery, London.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc video (98 min.) : sound, col., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing society's boundaries through his subversive art combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from the renegade children's book author and illustrator. Using a palette of 20th century events to paint an artist's epic yet controversial life story, the film offers a retrospective of Ungerer's life and art.
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment, Kinoo Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Multiple
Description
Nam June Paik was a pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century, widely regarded as the father of video art, who coined the phrase "Electronic Superhighway," and is arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history. Features readings of the artist's writings.
17) Louie Bluie
Series
Criterion collection volume 532
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010, c1985
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ((unpaged) ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming years.
18) I am Bruce Lee
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
I Am Bruce Lee is the amazing story of one of the greatest icons ever to enter the public consciousness, the first film to truly tell Bruce Lee's story in his own words and actions, as well as through the eyes of international stars from the worlds of film, television, music and sports.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric French shopkeeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner with spectacular results. Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the Palestinian segregation wall in the West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With his lightining-quick hands and feet, steely body, and vast knowledge of martial arts, Bruce Lee was a one-of-a-kind powerhouse. He took on and out the bad guys with gusto. His astonishing skills brought him fame and movie roles. Learn the whole story from his birth in San Francisco to his mysterious death - some say the result of a curse - at the age of 32, just three weeks before the opening of his only U.S. film, "Enter the dragon." Along the...
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