Video and DVD Collection Index
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Key Everything is VHS unless otherwise indicated. Times are given in either hh:mm:ss or mm:ss. Letters (a., b., etc.) indicate multiple programs on the same videotape.
Performance
1. “Hearing” 2. Holzer, Jenny. Laments. [Betamax] 3. List Final-Kinney, Cassaudra (Provisional Of Course) 4. Chris Burden. Icarus. 3 VHS copies [labeled “Ondine ARTH 102] and 1 DVD. 5. Installation of “Hearing” by Robert Morris at WCMA.
Outside Lecturers at Williams College
1. Acconci, Vito. Brooks Rogers Recital Hall, March 9, 1994. 50:00. (2 copies) 2. Mesa-Bains, Amalia. Lecture. Brooks Rogers Recital Hall, Oct. 5, 1994 3. Art 275 a. Dennis Oppenheim Lecture. 2:00:00. Copy Reserve b. Clyde Connell Lecture. 1:30:00. April 5, 1988 c. Alice Aycock Lecture. 1:30:00. Feb. 16, 1988 d. Nancy Holt Lecture May 2, 1990 4. Peggy Diggs – Lecture for Art 102. 5-12-97. 5. Louise Bourgeois Symposium Intro. 10-11-02. 6. Amalia Mesa-Baines Lecture. October 5, 1994.
Collection/Exhibition Profiles
1. The Walter’s Art Gallery. Silver Treasures from Byzantium. 14:00. Dec. 13, 1991 2. Public Interventions. [Public art.] 47:00. Exhibit at ICA Apr-Jul 1994.
Culture [See also: Miscellaneous]
African
1. ARTH 285 a. African Dance: Beauty and the Beast. 31:10 b. Yaaba Soore: Path of the Ancestors. c. Dance of the Spirits. 43:00.
Asian (mostly copied March 2008)
1. Zen Temple Eiheiji. Copy. DVD, 2 copies. 2. A Day on the Grand Canal. 46:00. DVD, 2 copies. 3. Space/ Time. Garden of Rioan-Ji. Copy from Art on Film/Film. DVD, 2 copies. 4. Principles and Practices of Zen. DVD, 2 copies. 5. Buddhism: Great Wheel of Being. DVD, 2 copies. 6. Buddhism in China. DVD, 2 copies. 7. Tea Ceremony. DVD, 3 copies. 8. Dream Window. DVD, 2 copies. 9. The Age of the Shoguns. DVD, 2 copies. 10. The Coming of the Barbarians. DVD, 2 copies. 11. Tea Ceremony. Copy master. 12. Images of India. DVD. 13. Buddha in the Land of the Kami. DVD. 14. Divine Renewal of the Ise Shrine. DVD. 15. The Tale of Genji. DVD 16. The Illustrated Handscroll: The Tale of Genji. DVD 17. The Immortal Emperor. DVD 18. Utamaro and His Five Women. DVD 19. Chinese Art: Treasures of the National Palace. DVD 20. In the Gardens of Delight. DVD 21. Small Happiness: One Village in China. DVD 22. Puja: Expressions of Hindu Devotion. DVD 23. The Emperor’s Eye: Art and Power in Imperial China. DVD 24. Daimo. DVD 25. China My Sorrow. DVD 26. New Year Sacrifice. DVD 27. Raise the Red Lantern DVD 28. Inner Visions: Avant Garde Art in China. DVD
Middle East
1. Smithsonian World Series, The Vever Affair, #405. [Islamic Art.] 57:50. 1989. 2. Bactrian Horde & Bamiyan. Afghan Treasures – National Geographic. 2005? DVD and VHS.
Contemporary Artists
1. Bowen/ Blumenthal, Eleanor Antin, [Conceptual Artist.] 28:00. 1979. [Betamax] 2. Michael Blackwood Prod. Reclaiming the Body: Feminist Art in America. 56:35. 3.Environmental Art, Working With The Elements (Air, Earth, Fire, Water). 16:00. 1990 4. Fourteen Americans: Directions of the 1970's. 5. Project for Public Spaces, Waiting for the Bus. 6. Robert Erwin. [Documentary] Includes supp. printouts. 60:00. 1977. [Betamax] 7. Robert Erwin: The Beauty of Questions. Leonard Feinstein. 57:35. 1997. 8. Art:21. [Art in the 21st Century.] Season 4. PBS Home Video. 3:40:00. DVD. 9. David Hammons. [interview]. Excerpt from larger program. 1998? VHS and DVD. 10.-12. Currents (DVD Series by Columbus Museum of Art): includes documentary, image gallery, artist biography and additional materials. Peter Zimmerman Jason Salavon Evan Penny
Architecture
Masterpieces in Video Series: 1. Capitalizing Paris: Building a City: History, Buildings & Streets. 58:00. 1995. 2. Bernini: Sculptor. 33:00. Also: A History of Fountains! 1996 3. Bernini: Architect: The Great Problem Solver. 30:00. 1997. 4. Borromini: His Extraordinary Architecture. 35:00. 1996. 5. Rome Revisited: The Renewal of Splendor. 45:00. 1995. 6. French Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture: Part One. 47:00. 1994. (Time indicates when segment starts) a. Germiny-des-Pres, chapel. 2:33 b. Jumieges, Saint-Piere. 6:08. c. Jumieges, Notre Dame. 7:46. d. Cerisy-la-Foret, Saint-Vigor. 11:14. e. Caen, Saint-Ettienne. 15:38. f. St-Martin-de-Boscherville, St-Georges. 23:16 g. Reims, Saint-Remi. 26:50 h. St-Benoit-sur-Loire, Abbey Church. 31:11. 7. French Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture: Part Two. 49:00. 1994. a. Tournus, Saint-Philibert. 2:02. b. Paray-le-Monial, Sacre-Coeur. 6:53. c. Autun, Saint-Lazare. 10:47. d. Saulieu, Saint-Andoche. 23:42. e. Vezelay, La Madeleine. 30:52. 8. French Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture: Part Three. 47:00. 1994. a. Conques, Sainte-Foy. 2:04. b. Issoire, Saint-Austremoine. 19:43. c. Saint-Nectaire, church. 22:00. d. Toulouse, Saint-Sernin. 24:02. e. Moissac, Saint-Pierre. 30:30. 9. French Romanesque Architecture and Sculpture: Part Four. 47:00. 1994. a. Cahours, Saint-Etienne. 2:30. b. Angouleme, Saint-Pierre. 7:30. c. Perigueux, Saint-Front. 13:28. d. Carennac, Saint-Pierre. 19:28. e. Collonges-le-Rouge. 21:54. f. Aulnay-de-Saintonge. 24:09. g. Melle, St-Hillaire. 40:00. h. St.-Jouin-de-Marnes. 42:37.
10. Nortre-Dame, Cathedal of Amiens Trilogy (of which we have two): (Companion to Stephen Murray’s Notre Dame: The Power of Change in Gothic.) 1. Part I: Reflections, Live Walk-Through. 15:00. 2. Part II: Revelation, Computer and Architectural Animation. 12:00.
11. Nagel, Chester, The Ideas and Works of I.M. Pei. 60:00. October 1987. 12. Nagel, Chester, Gropius/ Man of Vision. 50:00. May 1983. 13. Nagel, Chester, Prof. of Architecture, UC Denver, Art in Architecture. 28:30. 1989. 14. Wright, Georgia. Three English Cathedrals: Norwich, Lincoln, Wells. 45:00. 1995. 15. Architecture of Transcendence: Beauvais Cathedral. Film on Art. Program 4. VHs and DVD. a. Also includes short “Collapse Sequence,” showing students pulling wooden blocks out of models of cathedrals to show how fragile they are.. 16. Frank Lloyd Wright Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. DVD
Williams College Faculty Lectures
1. Art 102: Lectures by Eva Grudin a. Van Eyck- Feb. 23, 1993 b. Romanticism- April 18, 1993 (2 copies) c. Realism- April 18, 1993 (2 copies) 2. Retrievers of the Lost Art: S. Lane Faison and the Dismantling of the Nazi Art Machine. Image- Enhanced Lecture and Interview. 2002/2006. DVD. 3. When I Was a Painter, William H. Pierson. 2 disc interview. DVD
Williams College Video Class projects
1. ARTS 319, Junior Seminar: Video Art. July 1988. 2. Best of Video One, Spring 1991
Miscellaneous
1. Center for Safety in the Arts. Art Safety: Hazards and Precautions. Has supp. booklet.1988. a. Part I. 49:00. b. Part II. 53:00. 2 Cleveland Institute of Art, Lacoste School of the Arts in France. 17:30. August 1989. 3. The School of the Art Institute. 11:07. Also: Careers in the Visual Arts. 14:00. 4. Gertrude Stein/Matisse/Picasso. Making of Americans 1+2. (Audio CD). 5. Program 1. Art on Film/Film on Art Balance: Film/Art. Also has supp. booklet. 1992. 59:00. a. The Fayum Portraits: Funerary Paint of Roman Egypt. 15:00. b. 1867. [Execution of Emperor Maximillian. Esp. Manet’s painting.] 14:00. c. Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji. 16:00. 6. After Modernism: the Dilemma of Influence. [Modernism’s effects.] 58:36. 7. Sculpting in Wax. [How-to.] Educational Video Network. 28:00. 1998. 8. Turner Program Services. The Day the Universe Changed. [Brunelleschi’s Discovery of Perspective.] A Personal View by James Burke. Episode 3: “Point of View.” 52:14. 1993. 9. Williamstown Conservation Lab. Saving the Future – of the Past. [Art Conservation.] VHS. 10. Last Days of President Williams McKinley. Also, Columbian Exposition and Mock Battle. 32:00. DVD. 11. Liza Johnson. The Kinneys, a gloss to the BBC production. Also, Cassandra [video art.] 12. Contacts: Eliot Erwitt. Interview and commentary by the photographer on his contact sheets. 13. Toni Morrison in Wien, 1906, CD 14. Danton DVD 15. C. Vermeule Slide Collection Index
CD-ROMs
1. National Geographic: Maps : Complete Collection. 9 CDs. Installed on left scanning station in VRC. Contains nice scans of all of the big foldout maps from NG from 2000 and earlier, but you have to use their annoying propriety program. No export feature, and (as of 7-08) no way to get around it.
2. Anderson Graphic Arts Collection. Multimedia Kiosk by Without Walls. 2 CD’s. Two discs with ~6 mid- 20th-century artists, focusing on a particular work of theirs. Movies about these works, might be alright but you have to load both discs onto your computer or else files are missing.
3. James Tissot: La Demoiselle du Magasin. Anderson Graphic Arts Collection. Multimedia Kiosk by Without Walls. 1 disc. See above, but with some Impressionism.
4. An American Focus. Anderson Graphic Arts Collection. Multimedia Kiosk by Without Walls. 1 CD. See above.
5. Ancient Greek Art: Architecture. Saskia. Has full-resolution, smaller, and thunbnails of some nice photographs. 1995. 1 disc, 2 copies.
6. Botega a Roma: Tom Dehill at the American Academy. eBook. Comes with nice color images of Tom Dehill’s work. 1 disc.
7. Perseus 1.0. Collection of Ancient Greek Images. 1 disc. A. Also look for Introductory VHS. (But pretty dull.)
8. Perseus 2.0. With Supplemental Discs for Comprehensive Edition. 4 discs.
9. Power Mac G3 Startup Disc. 1 disc.
(Updated June 2011)