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Ian Davenport (2006)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists in Britain. Each film provides a survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by...

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Vermeer: The Astronomer (1989 Video)

aka: Palettes: The Texture of Light

Director

Alain Jaubert

Producer

Marie Givry

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 27 minutes), £19.99

Discusses Jan Vermeer’s painting ‘The Astronomer’ (1668) in terms of the painting itself, the painter, and a palette of colour: pigment, composition and light effects. Vermeer worked in private houses...

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About Face (1994 Video)

Director

Mark James

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Follows the evolution of the self-portrait artist from being the invisible figure behind the canvas to the actual subject of the painting. Makes unexpected connections between old and new, describes some...

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Remarkable Miss North, The (2016)

aka: Kew’s Forgotten Queen

Director

Irene Antoniades

Subject

Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £13.95

A BBC4 documentary about the unknown story of Marianne North, one of the most prolific botanical artists of the Victorian age. North embarked on a project that changed the face of botanical research. The...

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Gillian Ayres (2008)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £13.99

This film looks at the career of artist Gillian Ayres covering her abstract paintings of the 1950s, and her involvement in the ‘Situation’ exhibitions of the 60s, which showed large works combining oil...

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Blast (1975 Video)

Director

Murray Grigor

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes)

BLAST was the manifesto of the Vorticist movement, whose name was coined in early 1914 by Ezra Pound. The co-signatories of the manifesto, among them Gaudier-Brzeska, Pound, Wadsworth and Wyndham Lewis, were...

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British Painting of the 18th and 19th Century (2014)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £14.99

The late 19th and early 19th centuries are regarded as a radical period in British art, in which artists responded to industrialisation and social change with new forms of genre painting and portraiture....

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Making Masterpieces: Neil Macgregor at the National Gallery (1997 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £1,170.00

Six half-hour programmes in which National Gallery director Neil MacGregor explores the relationship between painters and their materials: 1) Pictures as Things: Change and Decay: how paintings were made and...

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1000 Masterworks: From Muromachi to Nihonga (2019)

Subject

Art; Japanese studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £25.00

Japanese art offers a wide range of different styles and expressions, which changed constantly during the last thousands years. Despite of many influences and developments the aesthetic principles remained...

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Art of Claude Lorrain, The (1970)

Director

Dudley Shaw Ashton

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £50.00

In this film the art of Claude Lorrain is examined with a commentary by Anthony Blunt. Illustrating his points with a wide range of Claude’s works, Blunt talks about the composition of the painter’s...

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