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Series
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff's transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe's lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and Mapplethorpe would be at the center of it. Wagstaff pulled him from his suburban Queens existence, gave him a camera and brought him into...
Series
Arthouse films volume 1
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means
3) Chuck Close
Series
Arthouse films volume 17
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland, Chuck Close draws the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face.
Series
Arthouse films volume 7
Publisher
Marketed and distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Français
Description
Contains a series of documentaries about Henri Cartier-Bresson as well as five major works directed by him.
Series
Arthouse films volume 18
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom.
Series
Arthouse films volume 4
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Emile de Antonio was a close friend to many New York painters who later went on to become famous. He filmed and interviewed them informally in their studios. Artists included are Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland, Larry Poons, Phillip Pavia, and Hans Hoffman.
Series
Arthouse films volume 13
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas are working examples of the Dutchman's visionary theories about architecture and urban society ... an engaging portrait of a visionary man which takes us to the heart of his...
Series
Arthouse films volume 9
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I [love] NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser' remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, MILTON GLASER: TO INFORM AND DELIGHT. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings, the...
Series
Arthouse films volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Christina Clausen's documentary offers an affectionate, deeply personal glimpse into Haring's life, from his early years growing up in a small, conservative Pennsylvania town to his heyday as a world-renowned artist, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Madonna and others.
Series
Arthouse films volume 10
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world's greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s. His images epitomized the singular beauty of southern California's modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public.
Series
Arthouse films volume 8
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s and '70s, radical lawyer William Kunstler fought for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr. and represented the 'Chicago 8' activists who protested the Vietnam War. When the inmates took over Attica prison, or when the American Indian Movement stood up to the federal government at Wounded Knee, they asked Kunstler to be their lawyer. Kunstler also represented some of the most reviled members of society, including rapists and assassins....
Series
Arthouse films volume 20
Publisher
Arthouse films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Explores the influence of technological innovations, particularly cinema, on artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
13) Waste land
Series
Arthouse films volume 19
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of himself and his fellows as environmentalists. The pickers...
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