| Immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of art and music with these multimedia programs, available to view and hear on a dedicated workstation at the Art, Music & Recreation Center. |
CD-ROMs
- American Visions: 20th Century Art from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection
- Full-color images of items within the Collection. Each work of art is accompanied by photographs and short videos about the work and the artist.
- Design and Applied Arts Index
- Periodicals index and four directories: periodicals database, education database, organizations database and museums/archives database.
- Great Paintings Renaissance to Impressionism: The Frick Collection
- 241 full-color images of paintings from the Frick, each accompanied by descriptive information as well as biographies of the artists by Joseph Goldyne.
- Microsoft Art Gallery: The Collection of the National Gallery, London
- Multimedia information on artists represented in the National Gallery, London, including 2,000 color reproductions of paintings, information about the artists and their works, spoken names of artists and animations.
- Microsoft Cinemania
- Graphic, audio and textual information drawn from: Encyclopedia of Film; Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide; The Motion Picture Guide; and other reference sources. Includes film reviews, biographies, award list and topical list maker; excerpts of films, dialogue, theme music and songs; and stills.
- Microsoft Musical Instruments
- An interactive program that deals with musical instruments, both ancient and modern, from around the world. Includes articles on more than 200 instruments, 1,500 sound samples and over 500 photographs of musical instruments and ensembles. Allows the user to move at will among the four sections of the program (alphabetical index, musical ensembles, families of instruments and geographic treatment of instruments) or to select a musical slide show.
- A Passion for Art: Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse and Dr. Barnes
- A tour of the private Barnes Foundation collection of post-Impressionist paintings.
- Robert Mapplethorpe: An Overview
- Provides a critical overview of Mapplethorpe's work, supplemented with video interviews of the artist and his contemporaries.
- Voices and Images of California Art: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Provides an interactive exploration of more than 150 artworks, 40 video and audio clips and a digital scrapbook of hundreds of revealing letters, photos and documents spanning the careers of eight important artists who have lived and worked in California.
We recommend that you bring your own headphones.
Copies from some of these CD-ROMs may be printed in color.
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