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Art History: Images & Videos

Art Historical Videos

CCS Woodward Lecture Series - Since 1998, this lecture series has brought artists, critics, and scholars to CCS; recordings may be viewed in the Library (ask at the desk).

Smarthistory - This site, partner to Khan Academy, provides access to videos on all aspects of art and art history, including techniques, historical movements, individual artworks, and more.

Streaming Performance & Video Art

Art21 - Premiering a new season every two years, Art21 focuses exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists.

UbuWeb - This resource for avant-garde and hard-to-find material offers recordings of performances, video art, sound art, and visual, concrete, and sound poetry, as well as written work.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) - The EAI collection of over 3,500 works spans the mid-1960s to the present. Works included range from seminal videos by pioneering figures - such as Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, and Joan Jonas - to new digital works by emerging artists, including Seth Price, Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel, and Takeshi Murata (CCS credentials required).

Franklin Furnace Moving Image Archives - From Pratt Institute, the Franklin Furnace Moving Image Archives provides access to audiovisual documentation of art events - including performance art - presented or supported by Franklin Furnace. 

Image Collections

Luna Image Collections - Luna contains over 50,000 twentieth-century images, and over 25,000 twenty-first century images. Users can create image groups and presentations within Luna (CCS credentials required).

Artstor Public - The Artstor Public Collections (not to be confused with the Artstor subscription collection) are open access images and other media, made available by the holding institutions. 

 

Lick and Lather by Janine Antoni, 1993-1994
College for Creative Studies website