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  1. David Hockney Collection: Art and Life of David Hockney (2012)

    Director
    Alan Benson; Gero von Boehm; Beatrice Monti della Corte; Don Featherstone
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 157 minutes), £39.99

    Collection of documentary films about David Hockney, revealing the artist at three different stages of his career. PLEASURES OF THE EYE looks at Hockney’s philosophy, life and work, discussing the large...

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  2. Sickert Vs. Sargent (2012)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £10.99

    Presented by art historian Waldemar Januszczak, SICKERT V SARGENT contrasts the work of two major Edwardian artists, Walter Sickert and John Singer Sargent and portrays the differing styles and outlooks of...

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  3. Rolf Harris Paints His Dream (2010 Television)

    Director
    Vikram Jayanti
    Producer
    Anthony Wall
    Subject
    Arts and Humanities

    Anthology arts series. Rolf Harris dreams of painting the tryst between Titania and Bottom, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Arena invites supermodels Lily Cole and Lizzy Jagger and actresses Emer Kenny...

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  4. Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey (2010)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 35 minutes), £5.00

    In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making sense of its recent past. History books written in an accessible and popular style brought the...

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  5. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (2009)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £17.99

    Henri Toulouse-Lautrec is the great chronicler of the Belle Epoque and Montmartre’s nightclub district in Paris. Close to his motifs, the dwarfish son of a wealthy aristocrat led his short, excessive life...

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  6. John Baldessari (2009)

    Director
    Jan Schmidt-Garre
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 210 minutes), £17.99

    John Baldessari revolutionised contemporary art in the 1960s and his artwork is still a profound influence on young artists today. Baldessari’s work often attempts to point out irony in contemporary art...

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  7. Colorfield Variations (2009)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 81 minutes), £15.99

    Curated by Richard Chartier, this magnificent audio-visual project draws on a formidable roster of artists operating in the field of experimental electronic music, featuring the likes of Steve Roden, Stephan...

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  8. Edouard Manet (2008)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £17.99

    Édouard Manet (1832 -1883) was one of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects; he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks...

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  9. Renaissance Faces (2008)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £5.00

    Renaissance artists made portraits for many of the same reasons that we do today: to mark important moments in individual lives, in memory of those who are no longer with us, or to promote a public...

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  10. Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya (2006)

    Director
    Lina Fruzzetti; Akos Östör
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arts and Humanities
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £50.00

    For generations the Patua (Chitrakara) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The film follows the daily lives of Muslim Patua women from Naya villages near...

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