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  1. Classical Sculpture and the Enlightenment (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Classical studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the 18th century. Antique artefacts brought back from some of these travels form the nucleus of many of today’s museum collections. This...

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  2. Colonial Encounter, The (1993)

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

    Introduces the ways in which the culture and history of the French colonies have been represented to a western European audience since the turn on the 19th century through an interview with Joseph Adande....

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  3. MusÉe d’Orsay (1993 Video)

    Producer
    G D Jayalakshmi
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Explores the manner in which an old disused railway station, the Gare d’Orsay, was converted into an important, fashionable museum, housing modern art from Daumier and Millet to the Impressionists and...

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  4. Museum of Modern Art, The, New York (1993 Video)

    Producer
    G D Jayalakshmi
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording license Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p. NB. No longer available for sale from OU (8/2015).

    This programme on the Museum of Modern Art has several contributors - a founding member of the Museum, the architect Philip Johnson; the present director of paintings Kirk Vernedoe; an art critic who...

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  5. Terracotta Time Machine, The (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Hale
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the change of culture at the Natural History Museum, now charging for entry, creating a new corporate identity and promising popular new exhibitions, and its effect on the museum’s scientific...

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  6. Alan Irvine (1990 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    out of distribution, 102 slides. col.

    An exhibition at the RIBA Heinz Gallery, in 1989 dedicated to the work of Alan Irvine, a contemporary architect specialising in interiors of museums and the display of works of art. The exhibition was...

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  7. Booth Museum, The: 1890-1990 (1990 Video)

    Director
    Jennifer Murray
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 18 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Marks the centenary of the Booth Natural History Museum in Dyke Road, Brighton. Shows, in the words of the staff and the people who use the museum, the 100 years of its life. Founded by Edward Thomas Booth,...

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  8. Image: The International Meeting on Museums & Art Galleries Image Databases, London 18-20 May 1989 (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    IMAGE, the International Meeting on Museums and Art Galleries, was designed to bring together cultural institutions working in the field of image databases and representatives of the interactive media...

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  9. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford...is Shut, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Celia Lowenstein
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is an impressive collection of artifacts of many peoples of the world. Formed by an old-fashioned colonialist, it confirms the cultural imagination of humankind. Contributors...

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  10. What’s Wrong with This Building? (1989)

    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 28 minutes), £95.00 [Institutional rate]

    This film, which documents a controversy over plans to alter the original architectural design of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines some of the problems raised by the decision, including Modernist...

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