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Painters painting [videorecording] /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: FWL 06097 | Films We LikePublication details: Toronto, Ont. : Films We Like, 2009.Description: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 12 cmContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Title from container: Painters painting : a candid history of the New York art scene, 1940-1970
Subject(s): Production credits:
  • Camera, Ed Emshwiller ; editor and sound, Mary Lampson.
Prologue by Philip Leider ; interviewees: Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, Philip Pavia, Andy Warhol, Kenneth Noland, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Robert Motherwell, Larry Poons, Tom Hess, Hilton Kramer, Robert Scull, Leo Castelli, William Rubin, Philip Leider, Henry Geldzahler, Helen Frankenthaler.Summary: "A vibrant collective portrait of the legendary figures who powered the tumultuous post-war New York art scene ... De Antonio shows artists (and their critics and patrons) gossiping, drinking, and talking about life and art, and in the process illuminates the genesis of Abstract Expressionism. Footage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's landmark exhibition New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 supplement the film."--Container.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-03650 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050314144

Originally produced as a motion picture by Turin Film Corporation in 1972.

Bonus features: Emile de Antonio on Painters painting; Doug Kellner's essay on Painters painting.

DVD ; NTSC, all regions, 4:3 letterbox

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