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20th-Century American Art
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The National Gallery of Art's East
Building is a constantly changing mosaic
where the expanding collection of twentieth-
century art on view includes paintings,
sculpture, and works on paper by
American artists such as Calder, Smith,
de Kooning, Bearden, and Lichtenstein.
Titles on this compilation include:
Mobile by Alexander Calder (24 mins.)
David Smith, American Sculptor,
1906–1965 (28 mins.)
Willem de Kooning: Paintings (12 mins.)
The Art of Romare Bearden (30 mins.)
Roy Lichtenstein: The Art of
the Graphic Image (20 mins.)
All programs are closed captioned
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American Art, 1785–1926: Seven Artist Profiles
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This DVD contains seven video presentations
on American artists of the nineteenth
century. A thirty-two-page viewer's
guide includes a biography of each artist
and reproductions of featured works.
Titles on this compilation include:
John James Audubon: The Birds of America (29 mins.)
American Impressionist: William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock (26 mins.)
The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church (29 mins.)
Winslow Homer: The Nature of the Artist (29 mins.)
Thomas "Yellowstone" Moran (12 mins.)
Important Information Inside: John F. Peto and the Idea of Still-Life Painting (28 mins.)
James McNeill Whistler: The Lyrics of Art (19 mins.)
All programs are closed captioned
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An American Impressionist: William Merritt Chase at Shinnecock
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This film highlights Chase's years at
Shinnecock, on Long Island, New York,
where in 1891 he established the first
important outdoor summer school of art
in America. Chase's paintings and
archival photographs—many of the
artist's studios—are interwoven with
footage of the hills and beaches at
Shinnecock and Chase's house and studio
as they are today. (26 mins. with viewer's guide, closed captioned)
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American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
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Notable for their poetic light and dramatic
color, luminist landscapes are also
fascinating reflections of American attitudes
at a crucial period in the nation's
history. Photography of the New England
coastline is set off against scenes of the
same sites painted in the nineteenth century
by Fitz Henry Lane, John Frederick
Kensett, Martin Johnson Heade, and
other American artists. (32 mins., closed captioned)
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Ancient Art of the American Woodland Indians
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For almost five thousand years—from about 3000 BCE to 1500 CE—the prehistoric
Indians of the woodland areas of
midwestern and southeastern North
America fashioned utilitarian and ceremonial
objects from shell, stone, metal,
wood, and clay. This program discusses
the cultural and aesthetic significance of
these ancient artifacts. Illustrations
accompany the text, which also includes
maps showing the Archaic, Woodland,
and Mississippian period sites where the
pieces were excavated. 27 slides, audiocassette (32 mins.), and text
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Art&: A Teacher's Guide to Lessons and Activities for 5th and 6th Graders
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Four lessons—Greek and Roman Origin Myths, Heroes and Heroines, Art and Ecology, and Nineteenth-Century America in Art and Literature—are tied to national curriculum standards. The packet includes pre-lesson activities, worksheets, student handouts about works of art and maps, and assessment and
follow-up activities. Lessons were written for teachers who may not teach art but would like to integrate art into their instruction. Image CD with 20 digital images, 20 color reproductions, and 116-page printed curriculum guide (Slideset version with 20 slides also available)
Note: Available for a nine-month loan period, permitting extended use in classroom or library settings.
This program is also available online.
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The Art of Romare Bearden
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The visual narratives and abstractions of this preeminent African American artist explore the places where he lived and worked: the rural South, Pittsburgh, Harlem, and the Caribbean. Bearden's central themes—religion, jazz and blues, history, literature, and the authenticities of black life—endured throughout his remarkable career in watercolors, oils, and especially collages and photomontages from the 1940s through the 1980s.
This comprehensive packet contains an eighty-page text with related teaching activities. A music CD, Romare Bearden Revealed, features performances by the Branford Marsalis Quartet. 20 slides, 6 color study prints, 5 overhead transparencies, CD, and booklet
Note: Available for a nine-month loan period, permitting extended use in classroom or library settings.
This program is also available online.
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The Art of Romare Bearden
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Romare Bearden's art captures the diversity and richness that was his life. With roots in North Carolina, Bearden migrated north at an early age, living in industrial Pittsburgh and vibrant Harlem, and spent later years on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. These four locales and his memories of their people, music, colors, and stories form the bases of Bearden's collages and paintings. This film, narrated by Morgan Freeman with readings by Danny Glover, traces the artist's career using new and archival
footage to demonstrate the artistic impact of Bearden's memories and art-historical models. (30 mins., closed captioned)
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Art of the American Indian Frontier: The Collection of Chandler and Pohrt
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Based on an exhibition of decorative, ceremonial, and utilitarian objects produced in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the native peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and the Great Northern Plains, this packet explores how their dramatic and dynamic artistic
styles evolved. 20 slides, 8 color study prints, and
booklet
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Art Since 1950
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This packet discusses artistic movements of the late twentieth century, including abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, conceptualism, process art, neoexpressionism, and postmodernism, with attention to their critical reception and theoretical bases. The packet considers works by twenty-seven painters and
sculptors, including Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Martin Puryear, Anselm Kiefer, Susan Rothenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Artists' biographies, a glossary, and teaching activities are also provided. 40 slides, 6 color study prints, timeline, and booklet
Note: Available for a nine-month loan period, permitting extended use in classroom or library settings.
This program is also available for download as a PDF (2.2 MB, requires free Adobe Reader).
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