Arts: Photography, Paintings & Music Photography --

 

Barbara Kruger: Pictures and Words	Experience the engaging, socially provocative art of Barbara Kruger, who culls her imagery and words from advertising and print media to challenge traditional modes of marking art. This video includes a look at two Kruger shows at the Mary Boone Gallery in Soho. 1996, 28 mins.
Little Ashes 達利和他的情人 DVD  eng/ 791.43 M359	In 1922, Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz, Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the university's social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Bunel. Salvador is absorbed into their youthfully decadent group and for a time Salvador, Luis and Federico become a formidable trio, the most ultra-modern group in Madrid. However as time passes, Salvador feels and increasingly strong pull towards the charismatic Federico - who is himself oblivious of the attentions he is getting from his beautiful writer friend, Magdalena. In the face of his friends' preoccupations - and Federico's growing renown as a poet - Luis sets off for Paris in search of his own artistic success...
Lust For Life 梵谷傳 DVD eng/ 791.43 M665l	Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He fails at being a preacher to coal miners. He fails in his relationships with women. He earns some respect among his fellow painters, especially Paul Gauguin, but he does not get along with them. He only manages to sell one painting in his lifetime. The one constant good in his life is his brother Theo, who is unwavering in his moral and financial support.

    Music

Bob Dylan- No Direction Home --> 791.43 M379a Ve	Portrait of an artist as a young man. Roughly chronological, using archival footage intercut with recent interviews, a story takes shape of Bob Dylan's (b. 1941) coming of age from 1961 to 1966 as a singer, songwriter, performer, and star. He takes from others: singing styles, chord changes, and rare records. He keeps moving: on stage, around New York City and on tour, from Suze Rotolo to Joan Baez and on, from songs of topical witness to songs of raucous independence, from folk to rock. He drops the past. He refuses, usually with humor and charm, to be simplified, classified, categorized, or finalized: always becoming, we see a shapeshifter on a journey with no direction home. -- IMDb
Fugees (Refugee Camp) (The Score--Bootleg Versions, 1996) (Color, 66mins, Columbia Video) Category: World Literatures in English	A documentary on a Haitian rap band, Fugees, with their music videos. "The Fugees would like to thank God for his blessings, and all the Refugees worldwide. Lauryn, Wycleff and Praswell have taken their rough, acoustic hip-hop style around the world, including American, Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Japan, Haiti, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand and the rest of the world. Followers of the Refugee Camp are everywhere."
Jazz	The story, sound, and soul of a nation come together in the most American of art forms: Jazz. Ken Burns, who riveted the nation with The Civil War and Baseball, celebrates the music's soaring achievements, from its origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop, and fusion. Six years in the making, this "soundbreaking" series blends 75 interviews, more than 500 pieces of music, 2,400 still photographs, and over 2,000 rare and archival film clips. The 10-part musical journey spotlights many of America's most original, creative--and tragic--figures, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. Special features of the PBS DVD Gold include bonus performances and The Making of Jazz documentary.
Nowhere Boy 搖滾天空: 約翰藍儂少年時代 　 　 DVD eng/ 791.43 T247	The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles. -- IMDb

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