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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Saved! A century of art for everyone celebrates the work of the National Art Collections Fund (the Art Fund) during its first one hundred years. Since1903, the Art Fund has helped museums and galleries in he United Kingdom acquire more than half a million works of art. Ten of the greatest artworks bought with NACF help, among them Velasquez's 'Rokeby Venus' and the Beckett Casket, are celebrated by curators and guests including author Ben Okri, broadcasters...
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This meditation on cinema's past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Located just south of the Arctic Circle, Dawson City was settled in 1896 and became the center of the Canadian Gold Rush that brough 100,000 prospectors to the area. It was also the final stop for a distribution chain that sent prints and newsreels to the Yukon. The...
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