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	$29.99 Add:	BRUSH WITH LIFE: The Art of Being Edward Biberman (DVD) ORDER NOW & GET 10% OFF! New Release: Available Now! B rush With Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. Both epic and surprisingly intimate, the film presents a classic American immigrant saga, an inspiring search for artistic independence, and a great romance. Along the way, Biberman's growing commitment to social justice and struggle against McCarthy-era repression (his brother, director Herbert Biberman, went...
	$59.98 Add:	Chagall: Beyond the Real (DVD) T his remarkable film retraces the life and work of the beloved artist Marc Chagall. Born in 1887 in Vitebsk in Belarus, Chagall is arguably one of the greatest painters of the Twentieth Century. Using new family documents, drawing from the infinite richness of its paintings, drawings, engravings, and monumental works, this film invites one to rediscover a universal and timeless work. Much of the narrative is told in his own words, drawn from his autobiography, Ma Vie (My Life) and there is...
	$24.98 $21.23 Save: 15% off Add:	Salt of the Earth: Special Edition (DVD) S alt of the Earth is an American Neorealist classic. B ased on actual events, this landmark film depicts a strike by Mexican-American mineworkers in New Mexico. With the exception of five actors, the cast comprises non-professionals, mostly participants in the real-life strike. The film is remarkably prophetic in its portrayal of the wives of the oppressed workers which seem to anticipate the women's liberation movement that would rise over a decade later. Against a backdrop of social...
	$59.98 Add:	The New Realism: Talks with Villeglé, César, Spoerri, Hains (4-DVD BOX SET) T his four disc set, filmed between 1993 and 2000, includes interviews which are a valuable eyewitness account of the genesis of Nouveau Réalisme and all it represented in the context of the immediate postwar period. All four of these artists were among the founders of the movement, having signed the manifesto in 1960 and 1961. With simplicity tinged occasionally with prankishness, they describe the experiments which made their urban, industrialized environment the source of a new form of...
	$59.98 Add:	Once Upon A Time... Walt Disney: Sources of Inspiration at Disney Studios (DVD) O nce upon a time… there was a genius of American mass culture who was captivated and inspired by classical European art. Walt Disney was a gifted storyteller who surrounded himself with brilliant artists from Sweden, Denmark and England, all of whom helped to cultivate and animate his fertile imagination. T his documentary embarks us on a search to find the classical-art sources that inspired the first creations by the Disney studios. Like a journey through WONDERLAND, filmmaker Samuel Doux...
	$59.98 Add:	Marie-Antoinette (DVD) A lthough her name became associated with all the excesses of the French monarchy, Marie-Antoinette's personality and role are much too complex and significant for her to be reduced to the caricature of a shallow, frivolous and depraved monarch. In this film, director David Grubin paints an unexpected portrait of the Queen by presenting key episodes of her life. He shows us the multiple facets of Marie-Antoinette, both a Queen and a woman, a wife and a mother, as well as a political figure by...
	$59.98 Add:	Myth & Mystery: The Mona Lisa (DVD) L éonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 (during the Italian Renaissance) and, finished it shortly before he died in 1519. In this film, director Jean-Claude Bringuier recalls the history the legend and the mystery surrounding da Vinci's exquisite masterpiece. BONUS DOCUMENTARY: Léonardo da Vinci at the Clos Lucé: The Ultimate Journey I nvited by François the First, Léonard da Vinci settles at the court of the king of France in 1516. Traveling to France from Italy, the genius of...
	$58.98 $47.18 Save: 20% off Add:	The Life and Miracles of Saint Maur (MAC/WIN CD-ROM) S aint Maurus, better known in France as Saint Maur, was the founder and abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Glanfeuil, St. Maur-sur-Loire. When St. Maur was only 12 years old, his father Equitius, an Italian nobleman, sent him to live with Saint Benedict at Monte Cassino to be trained in monastic rule. In his early thirties, circa 543, St. Benedict sent St. Maur into Gaul to establish his monastery on the Loire, by favour of King Theodebert. S cholars and the devout alike will find in this...
	$58.98 $50.13 Save: 15% off Add:	Gauguin the Writer (MAC/WIN CD-ROM) T his CD-ROM provides new and immersive access to original and almost unknown Paul Gauguin's manuscripts: • Ancien Culte Mahori • Diverses Choses • Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin A t long last, these masterpieces have finally become, thanks to digital media, accessible to the public at large on this extraordinary CD-ROM. U ntil now, these manuscripts, and their outstanding illustrations, were reserved for an elite group of scholars and researchers, because of their fragility. W...
	$58.98 $50.13 Save: 15% off Add:	The Picasso Notebooks (MAC/WIN CD-ROM) T his CD-ROM presents complete, full-screen colour facsimiles of six of Picasso’s sketchbooks. Tools enable you to zoom in on the works, turn them, to access a detailed commentary and to print texts and images. An index and a tile-format search let you easily access the sketchbook and drawing of your choice. The six digitized notebooks were selected among the 58 which is preserved by the Picasso museum, and fully exposes the passion of the drawing. A unique treasure never before available to...
	$59.98 $50.98 Save: 15% off Add:	The Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry (MAC/WIN CD-ROM) O n the occasion of the exhibition “Paris 1400: The Arts under Charles VI,” organised by the Louvre Museum, the Condé de Chantilly Museum decided to present to the public for the first time in thirty years the original manuscript of the famous The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry, which came to be well-known thanks to the many reproductions of its illuminations. T his CD-Rom, available in English, French and German, is entirely consecrated to the French mediaeval manuscript The Very Rich...