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English, Whose English? (1991 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Investigates some of the ways in which images of England were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a means of justifying and maintaining imperialism in the face of increasing doubt and...

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Gray Matters: Architect and Designer Eileen Gray (2014)

Director

Marco Orsini

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 76 minutes), $18.71

Documentary exploring the life of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with...

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Paris - The Luminous Years: Toward the Making of the Modern (2011)

Director

Perry Miller Adato

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition in the visual arts, music, literature, dance, theatre and beyond....

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Loos Ornamental (2010)

Director

Heinz Emigholz

Subject

Architecture; Design

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 72 minutes), $39.95

One of the pioneers of the European Modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos turned against building ornamentation, triggering a controversy in architectural theory. His development of a "spatial plan" launched...

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Reading and Riffing on W.B.yeats (2007)

Subject

Literature

Literary critic Helen Vendler discusses the poetry of W.B.Yeats with Christopher Lydon. Describing him ‘in terms of formal invention, the first modernist’, she gives close readings of ‘An Irish Airman...

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Martin Regal - Shakespeare and Modernist Theatre (2015 Multimedia)

Series

Academic Service

Podcast of a talk given by Martin Regal at the Rose Theatre, Kingston recorded as part of the Kingston Shakespeare Seminars. Regal gives an overview of Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw and Strindberg as the four main...

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Gillian Ayres ‘88 (1989 Video)

Producer

Geoff Robinson

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 34 min.

Shows Gillian Ayres working on a large canvas ‘Sea, Sea the Shepherd’s Queen’ 1986-88, mixed media works on paper, and a large selection of canvases. A commentary by Gillian Ayres explores her personal...

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Bauhaus: Myth of the Modern (1998)

aka: Bauhaus: Model and Myth

Director

Kerstin Stutterheim; Niels Bolbrinker

Subject

Architecture; Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £145.00 (University rate)

This documentary tells the story of the Bauhaus school from its foundation by Walter Gropius in 1919, through its tumultuous history and far-reaching influence on 20th century art, design and architecture....

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Mark Eisen (1995 Video)

Subject

Design

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min., 1996 sale: £40.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Mark Eisen leads a new group of American designers who eschew the clichés of US heritage for a commercial modernism that combines modern materials with a keen sense of commercial awareness. Eisen talks to...

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Carlo Scarpa (1996)

Director

Murray Grigor

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

Film profile of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, whose radical approach to remodelling historic buildings, together with his modernist sensibility and sensitivity towards architectural form and natural...

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