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Nan Goldin: In My Life is a 28-minute
video featuring Goldin's celebrated 1996 retrospective at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, which was culled from a period that spanned more than 25
years of taking pictures of her friends, lovers and fascinating life. (video
description courtesy of International Center of Photography)
Native American Art: Art of Three Native Americans. 27 minutes. Available through Currier Museum of Art
Nevelson in Process. (Portrait of an Artist; 3) Louise Nevelson is seen creating two pieces of sculptures she discusses her feelings for her art and the creative process. c1977. 30 min. Video/C 1099. Available from Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.
New World Visions: American Art and the Metropolitan
Museum. A two-part 1984 series, 58 minutes each,
interweaves painting, sculpture, decorative arts 
and
architecture in an exploration of uniquely American art forms. Using the
collections of the Museum as a starting point, the programs were shot on
location in New York, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C. and New England. Part
1 covers the years 1650-1820 and Part 2 covers the years 1820-1914. Part
I begins in the 17th-century Hart Room of The Metropolitan Museum's American
Wing, continues through Colonial times, and ends with the emergence of the
Hudson River School around 1820. Part II explores 19th-century landscape
and portrait painting in depth, and takes viewers to the Frank Lloyd Wright
room at The Metropolitan Museum." A co-production of WNET and the BBC.
Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait is a 60 minute 2002 video from V.I.E.W. Video is a PBS special,
narrated by 3-time Emmy 
Award nominee
Mason Adams. Norman Rockwell had a love affair with America. His poignant
paintings captured the truths of daily life with a simple humane grace and
greeted Americans from the cover of The Saturday Evening Post for
over five decades. This documentary celebrates Rockwell's life and art,
with interviews and commentary by art historians, close friends and the
artist himself. "This notable documentary shows Rockwell was a perceptive
social commentator of exceptional artistic skill and narrative power"
(Entertainment Weekly). DVD: Bonus features include a Norman Rockwell
biography, an art gallery and more.
Norman Rockwell. "Norman
Rockwell's distinctive illustrations, glowing with the simple, noble character
of average citizens, crystallized an image of 20th 
century
American life." This 50 minute 1994 A&E Biography video
"provides an intimate portrait of the artist and the man with interviews
of friends and people he used as models and takes us on a tour of the Norman
Rockwell Museum and his best-known images."
Norman Rockwell: Painting America is
an 86 minute 1999 American Masters Production from Winstar Home Entertainment.based
on the award-winning 
PBS series.
Norman Rockwell: Painting in America looks at the life and art of
one of America's most celebrated illustrators. Best known for his memorable
covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Rockwell achieved unprecedented
fame for masterfully showing warmth and humor in his renderings of everyday
life. This program includes interviews with artists, critics, historians,
friends and admirers, as well as archival newsreel and television footage
of the artist himself. VHS/DVD.
Norman Rockwell's World: An American Dream is a 24 minute 1972 video directed by Robert Deubel that presents
the 
world of American illustrator
Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) through reenactment, stills, paintings, and
old film footage. Rockwell himself narrates this Academy Award®-winning
film. Using the artwork and the commentary of Rockwell
himself in combination with old film footage and staged reenactments, the
Saturday Evening Post covers once again come alive.
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Unnumbered quotes are from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art videos may be loaned directly from the Gallery. Some recent videos are available in DVD format. Selected video descriptions are courtesy of Facets Multimedia.
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