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1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The last years of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his...
3) Starry night
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vincent van Gogh returns to life in modern-day Los Angeles a century after his death. Having sold only one painting in his lifetime, he is awestruck to learn that he is now considered one of the world's greatest artists. But no one believes that he's van Gogh, least of all his own lawyer, the media and a skeptical art detective who is out to prove that he's an impostor.
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Everybody has heard about when Vincent van Gogh looked into a mirror and cut into his own ear. Bernadette Murphy, an independent researcher, has uncovered definitive evidence which reveals exactly what happened that night, and how it ultimately shaped van Gogh's remarkable art. Murphy's detective work finally provides answers to the mystery that has divided art historians for decades.
Series
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Van Gogh remains the ultimate example of the tortured artistic genius. His entire life was a struggle against poverty and mental disorder. But the hundreds of canvases that he painted prior to his death are today recognized as masterpieces.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (239 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Today Impressionist art is found on T-shirts and mugs, but it wasn't always popular. London Sunday Times art critic Waldemar Januszczak hosts a lively guide to these revolutionary and influential artists, visiting their studios and the rustic vistas that inspired them. It's a super introduction to Monet, Manet, Degas, Seurat, Cezanne, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassat, Van Gogh, and other greats.
9) Vincent
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Van Gogh's life is traced against a backdrop of his paintings in this one-man drama. The tragic genius of Van Gogh is captured in remembrances by his brother -- the one who was his patron, his critic, and his closest friend. Framed by a prologue and epilogue containing more about the Van Gogh's lives.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"For hundreds of years the public has only seen the surface of famous masterpieces by artists such as Van Gogh and Rembrandt; as well as medieval religious treasures such as The Norfolk Triptych. Now, through a melding of innovative scientific techniques and art connoisseurship, completely different paintings and important clues about the artists themselves are being uncovered one layer at a time by members of Holland's Rembrandt Research Institute...
11) Loving Vincent
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 463 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...
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