20th-21st Century American
Sculpture: Videos in DVD or VHS format
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- Augustus Saint Gaudens: An American Original is a 28 minute 1995 video from Direct Cinema Limited directed
by Paul G. Sanderson III. This video draws on photographs, letters,
literary documents and the artist's works -- which are found in major cities,
public parks and museums throughout the United States -- to create a beautiful
and informative portrait of a neglected giant of American art. Centering
on the artist's adopted home of Cornish, New Hampshire, the film is an
excellent introduction to the man and his times, and to the work that helped
a weary nation begin to make sense of the war that almost tore it apart.
Available through Currier Museum of Art.
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- Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl. 1 hour. Available through Currier Museum of Art.
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- Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture is a hour-long documentary released in 2007 and directed by award-winning
filmmaker Paul Sanderson. The film tells the sculptor's life story through
the voices of art historians, with on-camera observations of the artist
and his works including both historic and contemporary footage, combined
with original and period music. The documentary covers Saint-Gaudens' life
from his childhood in Manhattan, through his rise to prominence during
the Gilded Age, to his legacy as one of this country's greatest sculptors.
Utilizing state-of-the-art high definition, wide-screen technology, the
film takes advantage of the latest research about Saint-Gaudens and his
art, and reveals his greatest public monuments in ways never seen before.
The film is produced by the Trustees of the Saint-Gaudens Memorial with
assistance from the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site. Director Paul
G. Sanderson has won over 30 national awards, including seven CINE Golden
Eagles with films that have appeared on PBS, The Discovery Channel, The
History Channel, NBC, and other networks. He has been a consultant for
PBS's American Masters series. His films have been shown at Lincoln Center,
the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American
Museum of Natural History and Radio City Music Hall. Most recently he was
the principal cinematographer and consultant on a two-part special for
both Frontline and American Experience on the Mormon religion titled "The
Mormons," which recently aired on PBS. He also produced a documentary
on the pioneering Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont entitled "Wings
of Madness," that was broadcast last fall on PBS's Nova. The Saint-Gaudens
documentary will be broadcast on New Hampshire Public Television in the
fall of 2007. Additional regional film premieres are scheduled at the Smithsonian
American Art Museum on September 7, 2007, Metropolitan Museum of Art on
September 23, 2007, Philadelphia Museum of Art on September 30, 2007, and
the Art Institute of Chicago on March 8, 2008, with other locations anticipated.
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- David Hostetler: The Last Dance,
produced by Too Much Media LLC, a 30-minute version of the documentary
features Hostetler's entire body of work, with a focus
on "The Last Dance," a recent sculpture that is in the David
Hostetler, Wood and Bronze Sculpture exhibition that opened Oct. 12,
2007 at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at SVSU. Producer
Keith Newman and director Casey Hayward were given unlimited access to
Hostetler and his vast archives; their film is the first documentary to
feature him. An accomplished sculptor, Hostetler's work has been included
in over 200 group shows and has been the subject of one-person exhibitions
in galleries and museums throughout the United States. His work also is
in numerous public collections, including Trump International Hotel &
Tower, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kennedy Library, Boston;
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Columbus (Ohio) Museum
of Art; Milwaukee (Wis.) Museum; Speed Museum, Louisville, Ky.; Montgomery
(Ala.)Museum of Fine Art; and De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass. "You
will see the process from the moment the tree is cut down to the finished
product, a beautiful female form, one of David's stunning women,"
said Newman. Newman and Hayward plan to show their documentary at film
festivals, gallery shows, and on public broadcasting stations following
the premiere. David Hostetler is a graduate of Indiana University and was
awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from Ohio University where he taught
for 37 years. He retired from teach as a full professor of sculpture
in 1985 and is now Professor Emeritus. Hostetler's art career spans
60 years and his showing in the Fredericks Sculpture Museum marks his first
Michigan exhibition (right: David Hostetler in his studio, Athens, OH,
photo by Larry Hamill Lambert. Photo courtesy of Marshall M. Fredericks
Sculpture Museum)
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- Duane Hanson: An Interview: 30
minutes 1977. "Super-Realist sculptor Duane Hanson talks about the
development of his art. He explains his early beginnings, his education
in the Midwest, his New York years, his worldwide success, and his work
in Florida. In this 1977 interview, he also discusses the relationship
of his art to America's materialistic suburban culture."
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- Duane Hanson in His Studio: 30
minutes 1977. "In this program, as 20th-century sculptor Duane Hanson
works on a figure, he describes his methods and techniques of construction.
He shows how he selects and poses the model, makes a plaster mold directly
from the live model, casts the plaster body molds with a polyester-resin
and fiberglass substance, and paints the completed cast. He also demonstrates
how he positions the glass eyes, meticulously inserts strands of hair,
chooses clot
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- Earl Erik Heikka, Sculptor of the American West is a documentary presented in two parts on the sculptor's life
and art produced by the Heikka Art Foundry in 1978. Filmed and directed
by Dan Agulian, written and narrated by Mike C. Heikka, shot on locations
in California, Colorado, Montana and New York .
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- Hyper-Realist Sculpture: Duane Hanson/John DeAndrea. This 28 mlnute 2001 Paul Tschinkel program looks at two artists
who have helped define the hyper-realist style of sculpture. Duane Hanson
works from casts to create figures that are startlingly convincing. His
subjects are everyday people who reflect Hanson's interest In the "common
denominators" of life. John DeAndrea's supremely accurate nude figures
carry on a fascination with the human form that dates back to the ancient
Greeks. A Hanson retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art and
a DeAndrea exhibition at the OK Harris Gallery In Soho are featured. From
the ART/new york series.
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- Isamu Noguchi.(Portrait of an Artist) Follows the twentieth-century Japanese-American sculptor Isamu
Noguchi around the world for more than a year filming his global artistic
adventures. Examines his early life in Japan and his education in the United
States which formed a fusion between East and West and fostered the universality
of his creative efforts. c1980. 55 min. Video/C 6321 Available from Media
Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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- Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper
is a 56 minute DVD described by the Japanese American National Museum as
follows: "This video appeared in the National
Museum's 2004 exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics. It
is a timeless retrospective on the life and career of Isamu Noguchi, whose
bi-national heritage sent him back and forth between Japan and America
seeking a new artistic synthesis... He started his career in Paris as Constantin
Brancusi's apprentice. He made his name in New York. And, after World War
II, he brought a fresh modernist wind to Japan, putting his mark on Japanese
ceramics, gardens, and paper lanterns. His late masterworks -- rough stone
monoliths that echo both Brancusi and the Zen garden of Ryoanji -- marry
East and West in an absolutely original way."
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- Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces is a 53 minute DVD described by the Japanese American National
Museum as follows: "Isamu Noguchi often said that
the space around a thing is as important as the thing itself. This classic
program shows Noguchi turning landscapes into participatory works of art
as it follows in dramatic detail the struggle to bring his ideas to fruition
at Miami's Bayfront Park and at Moere Numa Park, outside Sapporo... His
austere sets for Martha Graham, which helped define modern dance, and his
UNESCO garden in Paris, which shaped earth, water, and greenery into a
series of multisensory surprises, are featured as well. A brilliant glimpse
of an artist at work."
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- Public Sculpture: America's Legacy. Sculptures are presented and then the audience is taken on a
29 minute tour to see and understand how each work functions in a public
place. In this way both the nature of the work and its role In history
is cerefully elucidated.
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- Saint Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl. A lush 60 minute dramatization of the life and work of Augustus
Saint Gaudens, pre-eminent sculptor of the American Renaissance, as seen
and recorded In his own words and those of his contemporaries. Shot on
Location in Boston, New York and New Hampshire. Produced in association
with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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- Sculptor Marshall M. Fredericks
is a 1 hour autobiographical documentary of Fredericks' life and work;
produced by Southfield Cable 15. The artist relates his life story and
discusses dozens of his sculptures. Vintage footage of installation and
dedication of The Spirit of Detroit. Christ on the Cross, and the Cleveland
Fountain is interspersed with recent views of these and other sculptures.
Available from Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum.
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- Sculptors at Storm King: Shaping American Art (47 minutes). The 400-acre Storm King Art Center is America's
premier outdoor museum of post-1945 sculpture. Through interviews, archival
footage and film clips of sculptors in action, this program offers a glimpse
into the creative process of some of the century's most influential artists.
Featured sculptors include David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder,
Isamu Noguchi, Kenneth Snelson, Mark di Suvero and Richard Serra. Shown
in conjunction with Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape
and Place held at the Columbia Museum of Art July 6 - August 26, 2007.
Contact the museum at 803-799-2810 or http://www.colmusart.org.
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- Shaw Memorial: The Power and Glory of Public Art,
The "Augustus Saint-Gaudens' original plaster
cast of the Shaw Memorial, installed in the National Gallery, is the focus
for discussions among historians, curators, educators, and descendants
of members of the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment of African Americans
who fought in the Civil War. The program tells us about the history, literary
connections, and artistic significance of the sculpture as an artwork and
a national monument. Archival photographs, documents, and location footage
of related sites provide additional content." .This 52 minute video
is lent free of charge through the National Gallery of Art's Division of
Education (go to NGA Loan Materials)
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- Torn Notebook is a 60-minute
documentary about the design and building of Torn Notebook, from
GPN, Lincoln, NE. In 1997, a major Oldenburg/van Bruggen work, Torn
Notebook, commissioned by the Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden was installed on the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln campus in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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- Vinnie Ream: Lincoln's Young Sculptor is a 1 hour video by Hi-Country Media Productions that has aired
on PBS stations. Click here
to view the script of the video and an image of the VHS cover from the
vinnieream.com website, which says of the video: "Vinnie Ream was
the first woman and the youngest artist to ever receive a commission from
the United States Congress for a statue of the true-to-life marble figure
of Abraham Lincoln that stands in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. The work and
its artist generated a storm of controversy...Miss Ream was given the coveted
job over many experienced competitors in 1866 when the art prodigy was
only 18 years old. This video documentary presents Miss Ream's inspiring
story and ardent philosophy of life. It surveys the fantastic career of
one of American history's most gifted women. Based on the illustrated biography,
A Labor of Love, by Glenn V. Sherwood."
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- Viola Frey: Memory Assembled. When
Viola Frey died in 2004 she left behind a rich and complex legacy layered
by the enigmatic quality of her person. Widely recognized as a leading
figurative sculptor of the late 20th century, Frey's monumental achievement
lies in successfully expressing her artistic vision through a highly personal
iconography and in the extraordinarily rich diversity of her work. Viola
Frey: Memory Assembled is an exploration of the life and work of this remarkable
woman. Begun prior to her death, the film incorporates original footage
of Frey, and interviews with her artistic peers, eminent art historians
and curators. From her childhood in Lodi, California through her education
as a painter and ceramicist and her career as an artist and educator, Frey's
impact on the art world is discussed and lauded. Director, David Bransten.
2006. 36 min. DVD 6788 Available from Media Resources Center, Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
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