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Max Ernst: Voyages of Discovery into the Unconscious (1964)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976), a leading member of the surrealist movement, interprets his own work.

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Date

11 Oct 2013, 12:08

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

2013. GB. DVD/Blu-ray. BFI. 172 minutes (+ extras). Certificate 12. RRP £19.99 About the reviewer: Dr Jane Thomas is Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at...

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Otto Dix (1989)

aka: Otto Dix: The Eye of the World

Director

Reiner E Moritz

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 59 minutes), £14.95

The psychological realism of the German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) embodies the traumatised despair and violent decadence of Germany between the wars. As this video shows, Dix’s visionary creation of art...

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Max Ernst (1991)

aka: Max Ernst: ‘My Vagabondage, My Restlessness’

Director

Peter Schamoni

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 102 minutes), £14.95

The German-born artist Max Ernst (1891-1976) was a leading member of the surrealist movement, and his later work continued to combine technical experimentation with vivid fantasy. This film celebrates...

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Life and Work of Georges Seurat, The: Point Counterpoint (1979 Video)

Director

Ann Turner

Producer

Ann Turner

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 71 minutes), £14.95

The early drawings and oil paintings of Georges Seurat (1859-1891) explored the qualities of materials and light. From his studies of colour and perception he developed his theory of divisionism and the...

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Jacques Lipchitz (1977)

Director

Bruce Bassett

Producer

Bruce Bassett

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 59 minutes), £14.95

Examines the life and career of French sculptor Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973), showing him discussing his early life in Lithuania, which culminated in running away to Paris to learn sculpture; the cubist...

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Interview with Henry Miller (1969)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £105.00 (University rate)

In this interview, Henry Miller (1891-1980) describes the motivation and inspiration that guided his writings. He talks about his self-imposed exile to Europe and Paris, his return to the USA, censorship,...

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Stanley Spencer (1979 Film, Video)

Director

David Rowan

Producer

Margaret Williams

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Marries the artist’s own words from his journals and letters to his pictures and scenes of the places such as Cookham (where he was born in 1891) and the Port Glasgow shipyards, where he was a war artist...

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Hillview Estate (1991 Video)

Director

Peter Keighron

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 279 min.

Record of the history of the Hillview estate, King’s Cross, in its centenary year. The estate was built in 1891 by the East End Dwellings Company to provide cheap housing mainly for railway workers....

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Seurat and the ‘Bathers’ (1997 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

Looks in detail at Seurat’s ‘Bathers at Asnières’, considering its radical nature as an image of men, painted in a monumental and heroic way; its initial reception, and its place in Seurat’s later...

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