Daimyo ED-261
30 min / color / 1988 / AA / VHS
High school through adult
Daimyo, the Japanese feudal lords who served as intermediaries between the powerful king-like Shogun and the samurai warriors, introduced and perfected the “dual way of the brush and sword.” This way, called Bunyo-Ryodo, taught that a warrior must have stillness in his soul if he was to be effective in battle. Purity of soul was achieved through participation in Daimyo arts such as No theater, the tea ceremony, calligraphy, and practice of the martial arts. This video includes actual demonstrations of sword fighting and theater, as well as period examples of calligraphy, painting, and armaments. Recommended for classes in Japanese studies, world cultures, history, and art history.
Daisy Cook Remembers ED-381
26 min / color / CTC / VHS
Middle school through adult
Self-taught artist Daisy Cook reveals her life on a Midwestern farm through a series of detailed paintings showing her skill as a visual storyteller. Ms. Cook paints the chores of her youth: harvesting wheat, making hay, preparing meals, and piecing a quilt. She fondly recalls square dances at her grandmother’s home, school in a one-room schoolhouse, and the activities at the community fair. Through Cook’s sensitive treatment of her memories, American life in a simpler time comes alive to viewers today.
Dalda 13: A Talented Woman History Forgot WA-529
23 min / color / 1997 / FL / VHS
High school through adult
Although her powerful images of India have been seen around the world, Homai Vyarawalla’s name never appears in the annals of photojournalism. Her professional identity, Dalda 13, derives from her birth in 1913, her marriage at 13, and her first car’s license plate, DLD 13. In a country where women were submissive, Ms. Vyarawalla defied tradition. Her photographs documented the death of Gandhi, the visits of international dignitaries such as Ho Chi Minh, Queen Elizabeth, and Jackie Kennedy. In this interview, Ms. Vyarawalla shares her impressions of these celebrities and the world in which she lived. She talks of her frustration with security restrictions governing press photographers and the restrictions on women in India. After retirement, she burned all her negatives, believing no one was interested. This video is a fitting tribute to a woman who is only now being recognized for her sensitive photographs.
Dale Chihuly: Installations 1964-1992 WA-450
28 min / color / 1992 / SAM / VHS
Middle school through adult
The process of glassblowing and its recognition as a fine arts medium is explored in this video that recounts the events leading up to an exhibition of glass art shown at the Seattle Art Museum in 1992. Dale Chihuly and his team of glassblowers are viewed in their studio, the Boathouse, as they complete the various series of works for the exhibition. From the large scale pieces in the Macchia series to the individual glass units created for a chandelier that is hung in the exhibition, Chihuly coordinates the artistic process. A sense of drama and orchestration is set as each piece is formed and fired.
Dama: The Dance of Life
ED-468
8 min / 1996 / VM / VHS
Elementary school through adult
This video footage, shot on-site in Mali, introduces the viewer to the powerful Dama spectacle with a sense of “you-are-there”. A celebratory funerary dance of Mali’s Dogon people, the Dama celebrates creation and the lifecycle as it conveys the spirits of the deceased to the next stage of existence. The video captures the dramatic landscape of the Bandiagara Cliffs, home to the Dogon since the 1400’s. Viewers will also see the vibrant masks and amazing feats of dance that characterize the Dama, including the dance of the Great Mask, a brightly colored wooden mask that is over 18 feet tall
Dance Black America PE-21
87 min / color / 1984 / PA, PRINCETON / 3/4"vc, VHS
High school through adult
Dance Black America is a celebration of the genius of contemporary black dance. Filmed during the 1983 Dance Black America Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the film captures the immediacy and energy of the performances. The diversity of talent and style is astonishing, from the speedy precision of the Jazzy Double Dutch Jumpers to the slow pulsating ripples of Charles Moore performing The Ostrich. Fontessa and Friends, performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, vibrates with a witty sensuality, not unlike the sassy spiritedness of the Magnificent Force, an enthusiastic team of breakdancers. In short, Dance Black America is a testament to the joyous history, richness, and talent of black dancers and choreographers.
Daniel Serra-Badué WA-451
26 min / color / 1994 / CG / VHS
Middle school through adult
In this interview, Daniel Serra-Badué reminisces about his early life in Santiago de Cuba, his education in Barcelona before the Spanish Civil War, his artistic accomplishments, and his decision to leave Cuba in 1961. Serra-Badué’s series of self-portraits, begun in 1954 while he was still in Cuba and continuing one every few years, exemplifies his subtle, intelligent approach to an inner reality. His gentle and mysterious paintings evoke the spirit of surrealism, a dream world where anything is possible. Through this video, viewers come to understand how exile from one’s country can affect the creative process.
Daughters of the Anasazi AT-43
28 min / color / 1990 / AA / DVD /VHS
Middle school through adult
The traditional pottery of the American Southwest is enjoying a new popularity, and this program takes viewers through the entire pottery-production process. Acoma Pueblo Indians Lucy Lewis and her daughters, Emma and Delores, continue to make fine art pottery in much the same way as their Native American ancestors, the Anasazi, did over a thousand years ago. Filmed in New Mexico, this program presents a detailed examination of an ancient and unique pottery technique.
Daumier: Paris and the Spectator WA-115
18 min / color / 1978 / PFP / 16mm
High school through adult
This is a film about 19th-century Paris as seen by its illustrators and caricaturists, particularly Honoré Daumier. Through the common theme of the spectator, we see Paris and its people, their preoccupations and diversions. Through its rich use of 19th-century graphic imagery, this film evokes the tenor of Paris in that period. This film is appropriate for students of art history, social studies, and literature.
David Byrne’s PowerPoint Presentation:
Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information ED-583 NEW!
20 min/2003/ DVD
Middle school through College
If you ever wondered what PowerPoint might look like in the hands of a world class musician and artist, this is your answer. David Byrne, highly creative founder of the band The Talking Heads, has made this alternately beautiful, whimsical, and mesmerizing presentation using the software program that is meant to be a “neutral office tool”. Byrne demonstrates its biases, tendencies, and artistic potential backed by his own electronically composed music. For school use only.
David Goldblatt in Black and White WA-316
52 min / color / 1986 / WOM / VHS
High school through adult
David Goldblatt is committed to South Africa. His contribution to the cultural growth and awareness of his country is the result of 30 years as a photographer of South African people. Goldblatt’s photographs are not intentionally political, but they certainly have had political impact. “I feel constrained to raise my voice,” he says,” and I raise it through photographs.” He shows Africans involved in daily activities and creates monumental statements about the anger and fear that exist just below the surface.
David Hockney: The Illusion of Depth NEW!
30 min/1992/ DVD
Mid-elementary through adult
This highly entertaining and instructive film, hosted by comic magicians Penn and Teller, is an introduction for all ages to the concepts of space, depth perception, and illusion in art. In some segments, David Hockney demonstrates the manipulation of perspective while drawing a chair using multiple perspectives for viewers to think about pictorial representation. Subtitled for hearing impaired.
David Hockney the Photographer WA-255
55 min / color / 1983 / FI / VHS
High school through adult
David Hockney is one of the most successful British painters of this century, but in recent years his painting has taken second place to his work in photography. History was made during the filming of this program, when Hockney became fascinated with the movie camera and invited the director and crew to his London studio. There, Hockney applied his still-photography techniques to moving pictures. The result was Hockney’s first experiment in making “fine art” from film.
David Hockney: Pleasures of the Eye WA-659
55 min / 1997 / VHS
College through adult
This film is an up-close and personal look at Hockney. He shows the viewer around his houses in the Hollywood Hills, Malibu, and England. He drives through the dramatic mountains of Santa Monica and to a friend’s house there. Strains of opera weave throughout. He tells how all of these connect to his paintings, drawings, and life.
David Lean: A Self-Portrait ED-44
59 min / color / 1971 / PFP / 16mm
Middle school through adult
This film by David Lean addresses the basic issues of filmmaking: How does the director choose the script, block in the action, cut the film? How are actors cast? How are scenes, sets, and costumes conceived? To answer these questions, Lean uses scenes from his movies, such as Great Expectations, Summertime, Bridge on the River Kwai, and Dr. Zhivago. Lean’s analysis of himself as a filmmaker is interspersed with comments from producers and actors who worked with him.
David Parsons: Pattern PE-43
28 min / color / 1992 / GPN / VHS
Elementary school through adult
Comedy team Penn and Teller introduce choreographer David Parsons in this program on dance. Parsons begins by explaining that dance can be based on natural movements that are combined into patterns that are repeated and varied. Dance differs from all other activities that use movement by communicating an idea through the creation of an expressive form. He then transforms these movements into a dance he calls “Sleep Studies.” As he choreographs this piece, Parsons works with his dancers to select and define 8 movement shapes that form the vocabulary that expresses his idea. Children are invited to experience sleep in a new way-to consider that “we might all be making dances as we sleep.”
A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape WA-300
55 min / color / 1988 / DC / VHS
High school through adult
This video provides a unique perspective on the works of the French Impressionists by stressing the relationship between the artists and their favorite subject matter: the landscape of France. Over 140 works by the most notable French Impressionists were arranged according to subject-matter rather than chronology, allowing for comparisons between the various Impressionists who painted the same areas and views.
The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash ED-378
8 min / color / 1980 / CF / VHS
Preschool through adult
This is the hilarious story of a class field trip gone awry! Through a series of misadventures that get sillier and sillier, the students discover that life on the farm can be exciting. This humorous story will engage children while reinforcing to adults that children and adults do not always see things the same way.
Suggested activity: Stuff colorful socks with old rags or paper scraps and sew together to make a fantastic boa. Then have the students make up a story to go with it.
A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth WA-389
47 min / color / 1991 / AA / VHS
High school through adult
World-famous artist David Hockney introduces this unusual program by stating that the viewer is actually looking at 3 pictures simultaneously: the “picture” on the video screen, a framed painting by Canaletto on the wall behind him, and a painted Chinese scroll that he has partially unrolled before him. Comparing the scroll with the Canaletto painting and with the “eye” of the video camera, Hockney spins a dazzling discourse on Eastern and Western perspective and their relationship to his own artistic vision. As he unrolls the richly detailed, 721-foot-long, 17th-century scroll, Hockney traces the Emperor Kangxi’s grand tour of his southern domains. The bustling streets and waterfronts of 300 years ago come alive in the shape of delightful “mom-and-pop take-out” dumpling shops, fishmongers hawking their wares, and bonsai vendors pruning trees. This video is recommended for classes in Eastern art, but will also be welcomed by any groups interested in learning more about space, depth, perspective, and a viewer’s personal perceptions.
The Daybooks of Edward Weston: The Strongest Way of Seeing WA-65
30 min / b&w / 1955 / IU / 16mm
Middle school through adult
Early 20th-century photographer Edward Weston was concerned with simplicity in his work. He did not impose his personality on his subjects, and never tried to express his personal views through photography. His work reflects this simplicity, as seen in photographs of Point Lobos, California and the western United States, portraits of his cats, and images from his satirical series.
Deborah Butterfield: Dialogue with the Artist
19 min / 2005 / DVD
Middle school through adult
The extraordinary Butterfield horse sculptures move people emotionally
with their special beauty and haunting quality. In this video,
Butterfield explains her relationship with horses, art, and life
and her working techniques. Made at her studio in Montana, an
art foundry in Washington State, and an installation at the Denver
Art Museum.
The Definitive Dali: A Lifetime Retrospective WA-357
75 min / color / 1986 / ARTSA / VHS
College through adult
This program features Salvador Dali’s entire life’s work-painting, sculpture, writing, fashion, and film-in the context of his extraordinary life and international career. Excerpts from film archives and feature films are coupled with views of Dali’s paintings and interviews with the artist, his friends, and colleagues. The narration was drawn from Dali’s own writings.
Degas and the Dance WA-644
66 min / 2003 / DVD
High school through adult
Edgar Degas' love for dancers distinguished him from other European
Impressionists as a dignified master of movement. Go behind the
scenes to the practice room atop the Palais Garnier where Degas
would capture in his art the ballerinas going through their routines
as they still do today. This film shows his sketches, photographs,
and paintings along with onsite tours of Degas' Paris neighborhood,
Montmartre.
Degas: Beyond Impressionism WA-551
30 min / 1996 / TV / VHS
College through adult
This video covers a little known period in Degas’ development showing the move away from his “trademark” subjects into a narrow range of themes; his concentration on particular techniques, especially pastel; his return to the study of Old Masters; and his collection of works by other artists. It also highlights the importance of his work for twentieth-century artists, like Picasso, and shows the spectacular achievements of his later career.
Degas’ Dancers WA-571
13 min / 1964 / RC / VHS
High school through adult
This film is a clever assemblage paying homage to the dynamism of Degas’ draftsmanship. Using artistic license, sections of Degas’ drawings and paintings are isolated and composed and juxtaposed by filmmaker Anthony Roland in a rhythmic arrangement using sound and image only. The black & white visuals are complemented by Marius Constant’s spare score.
Degenerate Art WA-432
55 min / color / 1993 / MUSE / VHS
High school through adult
In the 1920s, Berlin was the art capital of the world, and German Expressionist art, with its passionate distortions, psychological insights, and personal glimpses of inner reality, flourished. This environment changed when the Nazi party came to power in 1933. Adolf Hitler viewed modern art as a symbol of all that was wrong in society, and this hatred generated the infamous art exhibition of 1937 entitled Entartete Kunst, or degenerate art. Six hundred fifty works by 112 artists, among them Ernst Kirchner, Oscar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Emile Nolde, and Max Beckmann, were displayed. Archival footage of the original show and interviews with artists’ relatives, art critics, and cultural historians complete this picture of government control and artistic censorship.
Designed for Life WA-494
23 min / color / 1996 / FWA / VHS
High school through adult
In 1851 the first international exposition was held in England, and, since that time, countries throughout the world have promoted themselves through world fairs. A contemporary example is the city of Seville, Spain, who hosted Expo 92, an exposition to commemorate the 500-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World and Seville’s historical ties with him. Canadian architect, Ricard Blagborne, discusses his role as Master Planner for this huge public relations adventure that took six years to design. During the six months that Expo 92 was open, more than 42 million people visited the pavilions, and Spain successfully presented to the world an exciting image of modern Europe.
Dessau's Bauhaus
AR-7
29 min / 2002 / DVD
High school through adult
On the outskirts of Dessau, Germany, Walter Gropius built his
Higher Academy for the Arts in 1926: the Bauhaus. This detailed
tour of Gropius' revolutionary building explores every nuance
of its design, its history, and the philosophy of its architect
complemented with old and new aerial views, sketches, photographs,
and vintage film footage.
Diane Arbus WA-392
30 min / color / 1988 / AA / VHS
High school through adult
In 1967, when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented New Documents-a major exhibition of the personal visions of photographers-the surprise of the show was the work of Diane Arbus. On her own, she had pursued her documentation of the remarkable to be found in the everyday, and people on the fringes of society: freaks, drug addicts, transsexuals. The camera looks at many of Arbus’s works as her words, taped shortly before her 1971 suicide, are read.
Didn’t We Ramble On? PE-36
14 min / color / 1991 / FL / VHS
Elementary school through adult
Narrated by Dizzy Gillespie, this joyful film shows how the spirit and soul of the West African people have been passed down, generation by generation, through the black marching band. As long as 700 years ago, the Yoruba had musical processions at funerals. In modern times, the tradition of the black marching band continues, as seen in the skillful Florida A&M Marching Band. The program also shows how New Orleans jazz processions have become integral parts of funeral observances.
Diego Rivera: I Paint What I See WA-325
58 min / color / 1989 / DCL / VHS
High school through adult
“As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life and have frequently been in conflict with those who want me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.” Diego Rivera documents the life and work of one of Latin America’s most famous painters, a man of immense talent driven by strong social and political consciousness. This program includes information about Rivera’s wife, painter Frieda Kahlo, and the turbulent political environment of Mexico, which influenced both artists. Recommended for classes in art, social studies, and Latin American studies.
Digging for the History of Man: Part One
30 min/ 1968 / VHS
College through adult
This historic documentary explores the earliest civilizations of man with a very scholarly look at the art and architecture of the Sumarians, Babylonians, and Hittites. Focusing on ancient civilizations in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, it gives a sophisticated analysis of archaeological research while discussing the daily and spiritual activities of ancient peoples. From the Sumerian ziggurats to the Babylonian tower of Babel and the famed Mesopotamian pyramid temples, this documentary provides a unique looking into these ancient civilizations. Archaeological sites in this video are as follows: Uruk, Warka, Tower of Babel, Hattusas, Yazili-Kaya.
Digging for the History of Man: Part Two
25 min/ 1968 / VHS
College through adult
Digging for the History of Man: Part Two looks at sites in Asia Minor to investigate the art and architecture of Greek culture and the culture of the Orient. The Hellenistic influence on the orient does not go unnoticed as this segment studies the Greek and Persian (Sassanian) civilizations. Sites visited range from the infamous city-state of Troy and the Sanctuary of Zeus at Pergamum to the ancient Iranian sanctuaries at Zenan-i-Sulaiman and the grand Sassanian palaces at Ctesiphan.
Digital Photography: Learn the Fundamentals
2 volumes / 2003 / DVD
High school through adult
This DVD series with freeze-frame and chapter search is a veritable
course in digital photography. Photographer Bryan Ratty gives
step-by-step instruction designed for the beginner in the technicalities
and artistry of digital cameras. Both disks have "Teacher
Files" that contain Teacher's Guide, Key Terms List, Digital
Glossary, and Quick Quiz.
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The Camera DP-1
85 minutes
Contains 14 chapters: Intro, F-stops & Shutter Speeds, Digital
History, How Digital Works, Choosing a Digital camera, Using Your
Digital Camera, Files & Memory, Using Light, Digital Photo
Lenses, Depth of Field, When to Use Digital, Exposure Control,
Your Digital Images, Digital Pathways.
Crafting Images DP-2
98 min
Contains 10 chapters: Intro, The Camera (review), Properties of
Light, Exposure Control, Photographic Design, Critiquing Images,
Visual Themes, Visual Subjects, Shooting Accessories, The Gift
of Photography.
