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René Magritte (2007 Video)

aka: Monsieur RenÉ Magritte

Director

Adrian Maben

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £17.99

Profiles Belgian painter René Magritte (1898-1967) and shows the recurring influence of certain themes and places on his work. Visits the various towns where he lived and which were a source of inspiration...

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RenÉ Magritte (1979 Film)

Director

David Wheatley

Producer

David Wheatley

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Follows Magritte’s stylistic development. Includes clips from the early Feuillade silent thriller ‘Fantomas’.

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Magritte: Day and Night (2010)

aka: Jour et la Nuit, Le

Director

Henri de Gerlache

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 73 minutes), £24.99

As mystifying and peculiar as his work, Rene Magritte painted in a style that was at once real and surreal, witty and disturbing. His enigmatic nature and amazing career deserve more than a routine...

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Mystery of Magritte, The (1996)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (Hybrid)

A stylised encyclopaedia the life and work of the Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte. Includes paintings; letters; sketches; interviews; examples of his Super-8 films; a biography; analysis of his...

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Geometric Form in the Eye of the Beholder (1996 Video)

Producer

Jack Koumi

Subject

Architecture; Art; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 17 min.

Comprises a series of visual experiences from art and architecture. A ‘beholder’ superimposes her own geometric constructions on the scenes, which include buildings in Oxford and elsewhere. Some...

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What is Beauty? (2012)

Director

Neil Crombie

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £9.99

Artist and writer Matthew Collings presents an exploration of the subject of beauty in art, as he wonders if beauty is only in the eye of the beholder, or if there is something more universal we can say...

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Art & Cinema: Die Belgishche Kunstdocumentarie/Le Documentaire Sur L’Art en Belgique/The Belgian Art Documentary (2013)

Director

Henri Storck; Charles Dekeukeleire; André Cauvin; Paul Haesaerts; Luc de Heusch

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 425 minutes), 47 Euros

This 3 DVD collection presents twenty films about art made by Belgian documentary filmmakers Charles Dekeukeleire, André Cauvin, Henri Storck, Paul Haesaerts and Luc de Heusch. The films cover a period of...

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High Art of the Low Countries, The (2013)

Producer

Basil Comely

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the history of art, architecture and culture in the Low Countries, examining how the artists of Belgium and Holland were driven to search for anidentity in an area that was...

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Shock of the New (8 Parts) (1980 Video)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £280.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series on modern art, relating it to life, social and scientific changes, politics and history, and to everyday experiences of the world. 1: Looks at the machine age of the late 19th century and shows the...

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