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Series
Arthouse films ; 9
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
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's remarkable artistic output is presented, from newspaper and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his celebrated prints, drawings, posters and paintings.
Series
Arthouse films ; 021
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior. Their against-all-odds saga is brought to life through rare home movies, animation, dramatizations, and reminiscences from Don and many friends.
Series
Arthouse films ; 1
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tells the 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.
4) Chuck Close
Series
Arthouse films ; 17
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland after the death of director/producer Marion Cajori, this movie describes the life and work of an artist 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. The artist describes his methodology and many of his artistic influences. Friends...
Series
Arthouse films ; 18
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 ; 16
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Documentary about the art and life of Joan Mitchell, an abstract painter and an active participant of New York's dynamic Abstract Expressionist scene until she moved to Paris.
Series
Arthouse films ; 8
Publisher
Arthouse Films
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....
8) Waste land
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes viewers on an emotional journey to the world's largest landfill of the day, Jardim Gramacho. Here the catadores, who number in the thousands, work under the hot sun collecting recyclable materials such as bottles, plastic, and metal to be sold to wholesalers. Muniz invites the catadores to add refuse to his art, photographing the work from overhead. The finished artwork will then be on display in museums...
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