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  1. Hopper’s Silence (1981)

    Director
    Brian O’Doherty
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 47 minutes), $19.95

    A documentary portrait of American artist Edward Hopper by director Brian O’Doherty, who compares the paintings to the locations that inspired them. Includes footage of Hopper and his wife Jo from a...

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  2. John Currin (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    American figurative painter John Currin presents his views on figurative painting, representation and masculine identity.

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  3. Mondrian: Mr Boogie-Woogie Man (1995 Video)

    Director
    Janice Sutherland
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 51 minutes), £14.95

    Traces Mondrian’s artistic development from his austere Calvinist upbringing to his first encouter with cubism. Examines key paintings in detail and explores his theories. Discusses his move to New York in...

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  4. Art History II: A Survey of the Western World (12 Parts) (1989 Video)

    Producer
    Donna Easter
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 x 15 min., 1995 sale: £29.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Series surveying European and American art from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Each part concludes with a brief visual quiz.

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  5. Money Man (1992 Video)

    Director
    Philip Haas
    Producer
    Philip Haas
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC only). col. 60 min., 1997 sale: US$59.95 (+p&p)

    Profiles American artist J S G Boggs, who wages a one-man war against the US government for the right to practise his art form - painting dollar bills and using them as currency. His dollars have been...

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  6. Rothko: The ‘Seagram Murals’ (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min.

    Analyses Mark Rothko’s ‘Seagram Murals’, illustrating how Rothko wanted to find a modern equivalent for the kinds of achievement he admired in the figure painters of the past. Filmed in the Tate...

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  7. American Visions (8 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Director
    John Bush; Julia Cave; James Kent; Christopher Spencer; David Willcock
    Producer
    Julia Cave; James Kent; Christopher Spencer; David Willcock
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 60 min., 1997 sale: £ (+VAT +p&p) series

    Art historian and critic Robert Hughes presents a history of America through his art and archecture. He travels around the country visiting important buildings and monuments, recordding the landscape that...

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  8. Alice Neel (2009)

    Director
    Andrew Neel
    Subject
    Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 77 minutes), £19.99

    Director Andrew Neel delves into the personal and professional life of his famous grandmother, painter Alice Neel, in this documentary. Born in 1900, Alice Neel lived an unconventional life as both a single...

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  9. Museum of Modern Art: New York (2014)

    Subject
    American Studies; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £14.99

    The MoMA in New York is the first choice for aficionados of modern and contempoary art. Art collectors Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss, and Mary Sullivan laid the foundations for the museum, which opened its...

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  10. Greenberg on Jackson Pollock (1993)

    Producer
    G D Jayalakshmi; Nick Levinson
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Art historian T J Clark interviews Clement Greenberg, the eminent critic of modern art, on the subject of the painter Jackson Pollock. Greenberg speaks of his first meeting with Pollock, Pollock’s early...

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