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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (32 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary film about the family and legacy of Apache sculptor, Allan Houser.
Spanning from the 1860s through today, the Haozous story is a journey exploring the incarceration of a people, growth brought on by freedom, and a family's personal expression of these experiences through art. Released in 1913 as Prisoners of War, Sam and Blossom Haozous passed down oral traditions of the Apache people to their son Allan Houser. These shared memories...
3) House of wax
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men begin to fight. The sculptor is knocked out and left to 'perish' amongst the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. However, the opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the...
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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