Art Videos
- OneSearchUse the filter tool on the left side of the results to select Content Type "Videorecordings."
- Art and Architecture Video Online (North America) This link opens in a new windowA collection of art and architecture videos available for streaming online.
- Kanopy Streaming Films This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a film database containing more than 30,000 films from more than 1,000 producers. It includes the Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, News Day Films and more. Note: Kanopy blocks video viewing on mobile devices in the device's native browser.
Ask for Videos at the Desk
Ask for videos by call number at the Education, Music, and Media Desk on the lower level of Bracken Library.
Videos check out for 4 days and may be renewed online by logging into OneSearch and going to My Library Account.
Keep in mind, overdue fines for videos are 25¢ per hour up to a maximum of $24 per item.
Examples of Art Survey Videos
- Africa's Great Civilizations byCall Number: Education, Music and Media Video DVD Video 13049Publication Date: 2017Takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. Contents: disc 1. Origins -- The cross and the crescent -- Empires of gold.
disc 2. Cities -- The Atlantic Age -- Commerce and the clash of civilizations. - Art:21, Art in the Twenty-First CenturyCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 841, 4257, and 4258Presents...diverse artists working in the United States today, taking viewers behind the scenes--and beyond the museum or gallery experience--into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration.
- Art of the Western WorldCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 4456Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture. Studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.
- Simon Schama's Power of ArtCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 3564Focuses on eight iconic works of art including sculpture and paintings to reveal the history of visual imagination through the ages. ... Discusses the art of Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko.
Examples of more art videos in the library
- The Art of the StealCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 8209Follows the struggle for control of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' 25 billion dollar collection of modern and post-impressionist art.
- Between the Folds: a Film About Finding Inspiration in Unexpected PlacesCall Number: ARCHITECTURE LIBRARY DVD VIDEO 7709Chronicles the stories of ten artists and theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at hard-earned graduate degrees, all to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paperfolders.
- Exit Through the Gift ShopCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 8528Follows an eccentric shop-keeper turned amateur film maker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have a British stencil artist named Banksy turn the camera back on its owner. Contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.
- David Hockney on Photography and Other MattersCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 9849Photographer and painter David Hockney invites viewers on a journey of discovery that traces the evolution of his photographic work, from his initial experiments in the 1970s through the high point of his photo collage period ...
- Louise Bourgeois: the Spider, the Mistress and the TangerineCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 8664Looks inside the world of the modern art legend and feminist icon, Louise Bourgeois, who has been at work for six decades, but always on her own inventive and disquieting terms.
- Waste LandCall Number: Education, Music and Media DVD VIDEO 9005Follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.