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BBC
presents Master Photographers: Andre Kertesz (1983) BBC series; part
1 9:54; part
2 10:20; part
3 7:32; part
4 3:52
BBC
News offers Diane
Arbus exhibition opens at V&A The Victoria and Albert Museum is
holding a major exhibition of the work of New York photographer Diane Arbus.
Martin Barnes, curator of photography at the V&A Museum, described her
contribution to the art of photography.
BBC
Television presents American Vision: The History of American Art
and Architecture produced by Planet 24 in association with BBC Television;
a Time Inc.-BBC co-production; produced in association with Thirteen/WNET.
Clips from epispdes are via YouTube. (Links found expired
as of 7/6/09 audit. Video were removed due to terms of use violation.)
- The Republic of Virtue "Demonstrates
how the new republic adopts and transforms the classical style to serve
a new, democratic ideal. Examples range from heroic statues of George Washington
to the architecture of Thomas Jefferson." Episode one titled "The
Republic of Virtue" part 1 of 5 10:48; part 2 of 5 10:54; part 3 of
5 10:57; part 4 of 5 10:58; part 5 of 5 10:57
- The Promised Land "Explores
ways that religion had a fundamental impact on the shaping of American
culture. From the Spanish missions in New Mexico to the Puritan churches
of New England, a new American culture emerges through architecture and
portraiture." Episode two titled "The Promised Land" part
1 of 6 10:41; part 2 of 6 8:37; part 3 of 6 8:59; part 4 of 6 10:42; part
5 of 6 9:31; part 6 of 6 6:35
- The Wilderness and the West "Travels
from Yellowstone to the Hudson Valley via works of artists Albert Bierstadt
(1830--1902), John James Audubon (1785--1851), Frederic Church (1826--1900),
Frederic Remington (1861--1909), and Thomas Cole (1801--1848)." Episode
three titled "The Wilderness and the West" covering The US West,
Manifest Destiny, and national identity part 1 of 6 10:46; part 2 of 6
10:37; part 3 of 6 9:36; part 4 of 6 9:09; part 5 of 6 7:29; part 6 of
6 7:25
- The Gilded Age "Reveals
widely different experiences of the American Dream through images of the
Brooklyn Bridge, photographs of the Civil War, portraiture, and impressionist
and realist paintings." Episode four titled "The Gilded Age"
part 1 of 5 10:57; part 2 of 5 10:57; part 3 of 5 10:55; part 4 of 5 10:57;
part 5 of 5 10:58
- A Wave from the Atlantic "Describes
the impact of the waves of immigrants in the early-20th century. Follows
the development of the socially conscious art circle called the Ashcan
School, the historic 1913 Armory Show, and the artists who forged a modernism
that is uniquely American" Episode five titled "A Wave from the
Atlantic" part 1 of 5; 10:54; part 2 of 5 9:40 part 3 of 5 10:58;
part 4 of 5 10:58; part 5 of 5 10:57
- Streamlines and Breadlines
"Compares the mythic images of the 1920s and 30s, as urban as the
skyscrapers rising up in New York and as rural as the heartland realized
by regionalist painters like Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)." Episode
six titled "Streamlines and Breadlines" part 1 of 5 10:57; part
2 of 5 10:58; part 3 of 5 10:57; part 4 of 5 10:58; part 5 of 5 10:58
- The Empire of Signs "Details
how America's power becomes unrivaled in the post-war era, and how artists
of the period make an explosive break with the past. Considers the impact
of Hiroshima on art, traces the development of abstract expressionism and
the life of Jackson Pollock, and explores how artists as different as James
Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns reacted to the
new consumer culture." Episode seven titled "The Empire of Signs"
part 1 of 5 10:57; part 2 of 5 10:57; part 3 of 5 10:58; part 4 of 5 10:58;
part 5 of 5 10:58
- The Age of Anxiety"
"Explores how American art reflects the upheavals of the last twenty-five
years, from the evolution of abstract art to minimalism. The program also
considers the spiritual richness of earth works, in which nature is the
artist's medium." Description source: Amon Carter Museum Teacher Resource
Center. Episode eight titled "The Age of Anxiety" part 1 of 5
10:55; part 2 of 5 10:52; part 3 of 5 10:50; part 4 of 5 10:55; part 5
of 5 10:57
Behindtheglass.org
presents Behind
the Glass: The Cincinnati Art Museum with several
video clips featuring members of the staff of the Cincinnati Art Museum
explaining their positions, including Glenn Markoe, Curator of Classical
and Near Eastern Art, Jay Brennan Pattison, Associate Registrar, and Fred
Wallace, Associate Conservator.
Bellevue Art
Museum's web site contains a Media Library
page which, as of 11/15/10, contains a menu of audio and video presentations
including material relating to past exhibitions.
Blip.tv
presents Ron Mueck, filmed during Ron Mueck's residency at The National
Gallery, London. The exhibition Ron Mueck was on view at the Brooklyn Museum,
November 3, 2006-February 4, 2007. Video courtesy of The National Gallery,
London. (Link found expired as of 7/6/09 audit. Source
site may contain this content via a revised URL) Another
video on sculpture is titled Community
Artist: Dan Gerhart which was produced, from start to finish, within
a 4-day workshop by new filmmakers at FilmTreks.com.
Bodega
Bay Heritage Gallery presents:
Boston
Athenaeum partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for a series of lectures
on American art by David Dearinger, who is Susan Morse Hilles Curator of
Paintings and Sculpture at the Boston Athenaeum. An art historian and curator,
he received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of
New York, with a specialty in nineteenth-century American art. Titles include:
- Sculptors and Their Patrons at Mount Auburn, 1820-1870 (47 minutes). David Dearinger discusses the American NeoClassic
sculptors and their patrons that are buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. [March
1, 2007]
- Hudson River School of American Landscape Painting, (1 hour, 11 minutes) a general introduction to the famous Hudson
River School of American landscape painting. [March 29, 2005]
- The Academy and Art in America, (1
hour, 5 minutes) a lecture about the role of the formal art academy in
the development of American art and art criticism. [March 24, 2005]
- Seen But Not Heard: Images of Children in American Art (1 hour, 27 minutes) uses nineteenth and early twentieth-century
American art to illustrate perceptions of childhood. [November 30, 2004]
- Marmorean Affair: Neoclassic Sculptors and Boston (1 hour, 6 minutes) reveals the Bostonian
obsession with neoclassical sculpture from the 1820s through the 1860s.
[May 6, 2004]
and also from the Boston Athenaeum:
- Familar Faces: Gilbert Stuart's George & Martha Washington (53 minutes) is an illustrated lecture by Ellen Miles, curator,
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian in which she "... discusses
Gilbert Stuart's creation in 1796 of his very familiar life portrait of
George Washington, together with its companion portrait of Martha Washington,
often known as the 'Athenaeum portraits' because they were owned by the
Boston Athenaeum for more than 150 years. Ellen Miles describes the relationship
between the Washingtons and the artist, the reason for the incomplete composition
of the two portraits, and the immediate and lasting success of the portrait
of the President, in contrast to the relative obscurity of the portrait
of Martha Washington."
- The White House: A Pop-Up Book (38
minutes) is a lecture by Chuck Fischer, pop-up book artist. Chuck Fischer
is one of the most talented and sought-after artists in America today and
is the author and illustrator of the acclaimed Great American Houses
and Gardens: A Pop-Up Book and Wallcoverings: Applying the Language
of Color and Pattern, both published by Universe. His wallcovering
and fabric designs are in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt
Museum, and he has recently been a visiting artist at the American Academy
in Rome. [March 22, 2005]
- Life Drawing in 19th Century America,
(55 minutes) an illustrated lecture by Elliot Bostwick Davis, John Cabot
Chair, Museum of Fine Arts, compares Darwin's evolutionary theory to the
style of life drawing taught in Boston and New York by William Rimmer (1816-1879).
[February 24, 2005]
- Banjo-Wielding Women (56 minutes)
is a lecture by Leo G. Mazow, curator, American Art, Palmer Museum of Art,
who discusses the many female banjoists that appear in myriad American
paintings, photographs, illustrations, and advertisements through history.
[September 19, 2006]
Boston College
partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:
- Religious Imagery in Navajo Textiles
(1 hour, 11 minutes) a lecture by Rebecca Valette, professor, french, Boston
College, who explains that seemingly abstract Navajo designs are, in fact,
religious symbols imbued with specific meanings. [November 7, 2002]
Boston University presented a 3-minute
video "Musée des Beaux Arts" on June 14, 2000. Painter
Susan Hambleton
of New York, NY reads a poem by W. H. Auden in this video. Part of the Favorite
Poem Archive recently presented by Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate and Professor
of English at Boston University
Brightcove.tv (Links
found expired as of 7/6/09 audit0
See artist-instructor John A. Parks' 3-part plein air demonstration
from MyAmericanArtist.com. Part 1, (16:36) This installment focuses on the
underpainting. Part 2 (17:08) Parks begins adding color to his painting
in this installment. Part 3 (24:02) The final installment of artist-instructor
John A. Parks' plein air demonstration. Posted Oct. 22, 2007.
In "Purchase Street, Rye, New York" posted Oct
24, 2007 (1:08) viewers see a plein air demonstration of Nestor Mandalengoitia
painting on the streets of Rye, New York..
Also see a Jan 9, 2007 video tribute to Gordon Parks (5:45)
The
Butler Art Institute features a video
library page on its website. As of September, 2009 the page offers four
videos of illustrator Bill Dotsun at work.
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