Mayer, Bernadette
Summary: "In July 1971, Bernadette Mayer embarked on an experiment: For one month she exposed a roll of 35mm film and kept a daily journal. The result was a conceptual work that investigates the nature of memory, its surfaces, textures and material. Memory is both monumental in scope (over 1100 photographs, two hundred pages of text and six hours of audio recording) and a groundbreaking work by a poet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Siglio
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Notoriously camera-shy, Lewitt refused awards and rarely granted interviews, yet in this cinematic portrait, the pioneering conceptual American artist comes alive. Using extensive interviews and documentation of artwork installed around the world, director Chris Teerink explores the artist's work and philosophy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOLSummary: A filmmaker follows conceptual artist David Greg Harth during the final year of his quixotic, two-decade quest to fill a Bible with celebrity signatures; an art project that turned into an all-consuming obsession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BOOVis̆tica, Olinka
Summary: The tiny museum that has become an international phenomenon offers a crowdsourced book that celebrates the objects that outlast love.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 VISSummary: This volume brings a new crop of quality shorts to audiences hungry for a second helping. This latest collection features 7 new films that encompass an incredibly diverse range of topics and styles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FULBaxter, Ella
Summary: As conceptual artist Sabine prepares for a critical photo exhibition, she spirals into her own neuroses, seeking validation from her rational husband, TikTok followers, and a mysterious stalker, while her eccentric alter egos and the ghost of Carolee Schneemann offer cryptic guidance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult
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Place a hold to request this item.Johnson, Mindy
Summary: Traces Tinker Bell's evolution from a circle of lamplight more than one hundred years ago, to the center of a major Disney franchise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 743.87 JOHMunroe, Alexandra.
Summary: "This illustrated book is the first full survey of the artist's career to include work in all media, including film and music. An introductory essay by Alexandra Munroe explores Ono's life, her relationship to international avant-garde movements in America and Japan, and the aspects of her art and thought that have guided her prolific production over four decades. Jon Hendrick's study of Ono...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Japan Society 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 700.92 MUNBrunt, James
Summary: "Temporary natural arrangements have captivated people across the world. Learn how a professional artist creates these outdoor installations, and get inspired to create your own with a detailed look at the outdoor world of artist James Brunt. Brunt makes art that works with the environment while not changing it or having a permanent impact on the world in which he creates. Whether on a beach or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.05 BRUSummary: Its influences include comic books, B-movies, rock 'n' roll, surfing, hot rods, and Cold War imagery. Art historians call it Pop Surrealism; practitioners call it Lowbrow. With dozens of artist and gallery curator interviews, along with hundreds of examples, this program chronicles Lowbrow's evolution, its iconoclasm and often antagonistic relation to abstract expressionism, as well as the rise...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The word "YES" morphs into "NO." A man with a hat becomes a rabbit. A human face doubles as the space between two other faces. These are some of the visual challenges at the core of Markus Raetz's art-tricks that call into question the viewer's fundamental assumptions about reality, movement, and change. In this program, the Swiss artist allows cameras into his studio to record his creative...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: More than just a manufacturer of goods, the craftsperson is an artist who draws on a bountiful lineage to create objects that are as beautiful as they are useful. This three-section program profiles a variety of craft artists to explore the origins, techniques, and significance of that process. 'Memory' provides a historical overview, and then introduces craftspeople whose work is informed by...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Watterson, Bill.
Summary: A Calvin and Hobbes the sensationally popular comic strip dynamic duo-are ready to pounce back into our lives. This collection from 1994 includes a great satire on conceptual art (Calvin tries to sell Hobbes a landscape in a Sunday trip.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews and McMeel 1994
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WAT2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WAT