Media specialists, film and video professionals, curators, and educators will find extensive information on more than 22,000 films and videos about the visual arts, representing productions from more than 70 countries. The majority of the publications date from 1970 to the present, with selective coverage from 1915 through 1969. The films and videos cover a wide variety of subjects, including painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, archaeology, photography, decorative arts, design, costume, crafts, folk art, and related topics such as aesthetics and creativity. Each citation includes the title of the film, a synopsis, credits, country, language, production date, format, and other filmographic data. Art on Screen on CD-ROM assembles in one central source information on thousands of productions and makes searching quick and easy.
Users can search the entire database by typing a key word.
For more precise searches, users can choose from a wide variety of indexes, such as artist names, style or period, materials or techniques, associated concepts, and genre. Each database entry includes information about distribution sources for the production, and Art on Screen on CD-ROM provides addresses and telephone numbers of some 8,000 distribution sources. With Configurize capabilities, the interface can be edited and modified to suit requirements at individual stations or within user groups. The CD includes a site license for a local area network at no additional charge. ProQuest Direct users will have full functionality of Access Disclosure, a uniquely comprehensive electronic index of more than four million U.S. and international company documents.