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Dale Chihuly: Glass Master.
In this 26 minute 1998 Vicki Dunakin video the artist demonstrates his creative
process as it is manifested in three exquisite works: Sea Forms,
Macchia, and Soft Cylinders. Dale Chihuly: Glass Master
is available through the Sullivan
Video Library at The Speed Art Museum which holds a sizable collection
of art-related videos available to educators at no charge.
David Hockney: Pleasures of the Eye is a 55 minute 1997 video directed by Gero von Boehm and Beatrice Monti Della Corte from RM Arts of the Netherlands. In this profile, David Hockney talks about his philosophy, his life, and his work, which ranges from painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and stage design, including his recent Turandot for the San Francisco Opera. Filmed largely in his California home, the camera also captures him in his London home and studio, at the opening of the 1995 major retrospective of his work at the Royal Academy, and in Munich to view the stage designs and wall paintings of the Pulcinella motif he created for Eric Satie's Parade.
David Hostetler: The Last Dance,
produced by Too Much Media LLC, a 30-minute version of the documentary features
Hostetler's entire 
body of work,
with a focus on "The Last Dance," a recent sculpture that is in
the David Hostetler, Wood and Bronze Sculpture exhibition that opened
Oct. 12, 2007 at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at SVSU. Producer
Keith Newman and director Casey Hayward were given unlimited access to Hostetler
and his vast archives; their film is the first documentary to feature him.
An accomplished sculptor, Hostetler's work has been included in over 200
group shows and has been the subject of one-person exhibitions in galleries
and museums throughout the United States. His work also is in numerous public
collections, including Trump International Hotel & Tower, New York;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kennedy Library, Boston; Butler Institute of
American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art; Milwaukee
(Wis.) Museum; Speed Museum, Louisville, Ky.; Montgomery (Ala.)Museum of
Fine Art; and De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass. "You will see the process
from the moment the tree is cut down to the finished product, a beautiful
female form, one of David's stunning women," said Newman. Newman and
Hayward plan to show their documentary at film festivals, gallery shows,
and on public broadcasting stations following the premiere. David Hostetler
is a graduate of Indiana University and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts
degree from Ohio University where he taught for 37 years. He retired
from teach as a full professor of sculpture in 1985 and is now Professor
Emeritus. Hostetler's art career spans 60 years and his showing in
the Fredericks Sculpture Museum marks his first Michigan exhibition (right:
David Hostetler in his studio, Athens, OH, photo by Larry Hamill Lambert.
Photo courtesy of Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum)
Days of Waiting: The Life and Art of
Estelle Ishigo is Steve Okizaki's video documentary
published by National Asian American Telecommunication Association. Wikipedia
says: "Days of Waiting (1990) is a documentary short film by
Steven Okazaki, about Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian artist who went voluntarily
to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. The film
was inspired by Ishigo's book, "Lone Heart Mountain", and won
an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and a Peabody Award."
Deborah Butterfield: Dialogue with the Artist. In this 19 minute video Deborah Butterfield's horses have captured the attention of all those who have been fortunate to experience them. The sculptor creates three horses while she discusses the creative process and her philosophy of living. Filmed on location at her studio in Montana, a foundry in Washington State, and the installation in Denver, this is a vivid and insightful portrait of a remarkable artist. A related video is Deborah Butterfield: Horse in Wax. Available through the Sullivan Video Library at The Speed Art Museum which holds a sizable collection of art-related videos available to educators at no charge.
Deborah Butterfield: Horse in Wax is
available through the Sullivan
Video Library at The Speed Art Museum which holds a sizable collection
of art-related videos available to educators at no charge.
Defying Gravity: An Historic Achievement In Glass Featuring Josh Simpson is a 60 minute PBS television documentary in DVD format that follows renowned glass artist Josh Simpson as he crafts the largest glass object of his career: a luminous 100-pound "Megaplanet." Cameras capture every step of the year-and-a-half process from commission to creation. The film features interviews with the makers of custom tools required for the project; Simpson's triumphs, disappointments, technical obstacles and inspiration, and the grand unveiling of the "Megaplanet" at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. WGBY, the PBS station in Springfield, Massachusetts, filmed the documentary.
Diane Arbus
is a 28-minute video produced in 1972 concerning the photographer Diane
Arbus. A pivotal figure in contemporary documentary photography, Diane Arbus
produced a substantial body of work before her suicide in 1971. This portrait
features footage of her lecturing to a small class she held in her apartment
and interviews with her daughter. "The work of photographer Diane Arbus
as explained by her daughter, friends, critics, and in her own words as
recorded in her journals. Illustrated with many of her photographs. Themes:
Arbus' quirky go-it-alone approach. Her attraction to the bizarre, people
on the fringes of society: sexual deviants, odd types, the extremes, styles
in questionable taste, poses and situations that inspire irony or wonder.
Where most people would look away she photographed. This program was made
at the time of the major Museum of Modern Art retrospective of her work
which followed her success at the Venice Bienalli and her suicide."
-- Contemporary Arts Media
Discovery Of Art: Maxfield Parrish (DVD) Distributor Notes: "Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was
one of the greatest American painters and illustrators of the 20th century.
Brilliant blue skies, pastoral landscapes and captivating figures are his
art's signature characteristic. The scope of his work was enormous, including
covers for magazines, theater sets, paintings, photographs, as well as murals
and graphic work ranging from posters to calendars." Source: Kultur
Films Inc. # Studio: Kultur Films Inc. DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008
Discovery of Art 2: Maxfield Parrish. This 50 minute 2000 film by Kultur Video "...is part of
a series that showcases the lives and works of some of the greatest artists
of the Western world, from the Renaissance through the 20th century. This
episode features the work of the great American 20th century painter and
illustrator Maxfield Parish. Maxfield Parish is also well known as a poster
artist and muralist. Brilliant colors and decorative treatments are the
trademark of his work. Art historians share their insights on the importance
of this artist while the viewer sees some of his creations." -- All
Movie Guide
Documentary Urge: Tom Arndt, The. Narrated by Garrison Keillor, this 22 minute award-winning documentary from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts shows Minneapolis photographer Tom Arndt in action: "stalking his prey" at the Minnesota State Fair, printing his film in the quiet of his warehouse darkroom, and preparing for a retrospective of his work with photography curator Ted Hartwell. "I'm a common man and I photograph common people," says Arndt. But there's nothing common about Arndt's black-and-white images, which have been exhibited widely in the U.S., Japan, and Italy and avidly collected by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. As a photographer of the American scene, Arndt follows in the tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, his acknowledged heroes. But as this program intimately reveals, he is also an artist of deep compassion and humility, whose powerfully "simple" and "direct" photographs seek to record both the confidence and vulnerability of the American people.
Dorothea Lange: American Photographer is a 13 minute, PPR 1988 video. "Trained as a portrait photographer in San Francisco, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) abandoned her studio in the 1930s and began documenting the effects of the Depression on ordinary Americans. Her images spoke eloquently of the plight of the poor and brought the desperation of the Depression into the consciousness of the public. Her last exhibition, a retrospective held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, was a tribute to the human face. Lange's photographs remain singular symbols of America's 'Dust Bowl' era." Available from Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life is
a 46 minute 1995 film directed by: Meg Partridge. The great photographer
is revealed through examples of her work and 
interviews with both the artist and her family.
Lange was pivotal to the development of documentary photography traditions
and her work remains an aesthetic achievement that continues to inspire
photographers today. "A tapestry of candid, often conflicting insights
into the photographer Dorothea Lange's life and art. Lange reveals her philosophical
approach to photography, her passion for her medium and the conflicts in
her work and family life. We are taken into Lange's confidence as she strives
to maker photographs emotionally charged as well as historically accurate.
The result is an engaging portrait of this extraordinary and complex visual
artist." (Arkansas Humanities Council) Available from Media Resources
Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley. Also available through
Partridge Pictures, Email contact:
meg@megpartridge.com, 800/886-3135 tel
Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein, 1961-1986,
The. Produced in 1986 on the occasion of an exhibition
at New York's Museum of Modern Art, this 20 minute Edgar B. Howard/Seth
Schneidman video provides a useful overview of the work of this seminal
pop artist. Bernice Rose, who curated the exhibition, explains Lichtenstein's
styles in different periods, and the artist himself discusses his approach.
"This video was produced on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York. It provides a useful overview to the work of
this seminal Pop artist, and it also gets behind the sometimes impenetrably
slick surfaces of Lichtenstein's canvases and prints, to show how such works
have their genesis... Lichtenstein starts out drawing freehand, and the
video shows many examples of his sketches that he later refines into finished
paintings. Lichtenstein says about drawings, "It's a way of describing
my thoughts as quickly as possible," and those thoughts are often on
art history." (video available through Checkerboard
Film Foundation, quote from Checkerboard Film Foundation)
Drawing
the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring. From Kultur Video.
An inside view of a controversial artist whose passion for the contemporary
human condition was the fervor that drove his art. In 31 years, Haring
went from being an anonymous graffiti artist to being called the successor
to Warhol and Lichtenstein. Includes interviews with gallery owners
and leaders of the international art scene. 30 minutes. (quote courtesy
Plains Art Msueum)
Duane Hanson: An Interview: 30 minutes 1977. "Super-Realist sculptor Duane Hanson talks about the development of his art. He explains his early beginnings, his education in the Midwest, his New York years, his worldwide success, and his work in Florida. In this 1977 interview, he also discusses the relationship of his art to America's materialistic suburban culture."
Duane Hanson in His Studio: 30 minutes 1977. "In this program, as 20th-century sculptor Duane Hanson works on a figure, he describes his methods and techniques of construction. He shows how he selects and poses the model, makes a plaster mold directly from the live model, casts the plaster body molds with a polyester-resin and fiberglass substance, and paints the completed cast. He also demonstrates how he positions the glass eyes, meticulously inserts strands of hair, chooses clothing and, finally, dresses the sculpture. His finished works are disturbingly realistic images of everyday Americans living in a consumer-oriented society."
Duaneland.
Of this 56 minute 2004 DVD directed by Stephen Seliy and Joe Seamans, National
Film Network says: "More than fifty years after he graduated from McKeesport
High School, legendary photographer Duane Michals returns to his alma mater
to address a class of photography students. This homecoming allows Michals
the opportunity to reflect on his small-town roots, his family, his development
as an artist, the varied work he has produced in his long career and the
current projects that inspire him... Upon his return to the small Pennsylvania
town of McKeesport, Michals explores the abandoned remains of his family
home. Navigating through rooms on the verge of collapse, he reminisces about
his Slovak parents, his Catholic school background and other events of his
youth. He also recalls the life-altering trip he took to Russia at 26, when
he found his calling... Duaneland offers a rare insight into the mind of
a gifted artist. Michals' solitary musings are interspersed with the lecture
at his old high school, where he pulls no punches. He regales his teenage
audience with stories of high profile magazine assignments, as well as more
personal work -- creations that are provocative, disturbing and even shocking."
Dublin Art Colony Collection at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, The 30-minutes. This video, produced and narrated by Paul Tuller, former president of the Dublin Historical Society -- available to libraries throughout New Hampshire -- explains and illustrates in detail the artists and the history of the colony, which flourished around Mount Monadnock in the late 19th century and into the mid 20th century. The video shows many of the wonderful paintings created by this prolific group of 30 artists in the Dublin Colony.
Duffy, William, Interview at the JB Speed Art Museum from The Sullivan Video Library at The Speed Art Museum.
Duncanson Murals: Nicholas Longworth's Legacy to the Taft Museum 15 minute / 1986 / TM - "Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872) distinguished himself as the first and most accomplished African-American artist to work in the 19th-century Romantic landscape tradition. This program briefly examines Duncanson's life and the 8 large wall murals that he executed for the Cincinnati home of his abolitionist patron, Nicholas Longworth. Concluding the program is a discussion of the role of mural painting throughout history."
Dye Transfer Process, The Demonstrates the four basic steps of making color photographic prints using the dye transfer process. Fort Worth photographer Luther Smith (b. 1950) hosts the program. 8-minute video. Description source: Amon Carter Museum Teacher Resource Center
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