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Herb and Dorothy [DVD] / Arthouse Films

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: English Series: Arthouse films (Series) ; 001.Publication details: [New York, N.Y.] : Arthouse Films : Distributed by New Video Group, ©2009.Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1422972704
  • 9781422972700
Other title:
  • Title on container: Herb & Dorothy
  • Subtitle on container: You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N5220.V6 H47 2009
Production credits:
  • Camera, Axel Baumann [and others] ; editor, Bernadine Colish ; original music, David Majzlin.
Awards:
  • Hamptons Film Festival, Siverdocs Film Festival, Audience Award; Philadelphia Cinefest, Audience Award; Provincetown Film Festival, Best Documentary.
Herbert Vogel, Dorothy Vogel.Summary: "Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, the Vogels quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, they collected guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner. Herb and Dorothy provides a unique chronicle of the world of contemporary art from two unlikely collectors, whose shared passion and discipline defies stereotypes and redefines what it means to be a patron of the arts."--Container.
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Originally produced as a documentary in 2008.

Special features include: deleted scenes; festival appearances; theatrical premiere; theatrical trailers.

Camera, Axel Baumann [and others] ; editor, Bernadine Colish ; original music, David Majzlin.

Herbert Vogel, Dorothy Vogel.

"Herb & Dorothy tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960s, when very little attention was paid to Minimalist and Conceptual Art, the Vogels quietly began purchasing the works of unknown artists. Devoting all of Herb's salary to purchase art they liked, they collected guided by two rules: the piece had to be affordable, and it had to be small enough to fit in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Within these limitations, they proved themselves curatorial visionaries; most of those they supported and befriended went on to become world-renowned artists, including Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner. Herb and Dorothy provides a unique chronicle of the world of contemporary art from two unlikely collectors, whose shared passion and discipline defies stereotypes and redefines what it means to be a patron of the arts."--Container.

DVD; Dolby digital stereo.; NTSC.

In English.

Hamptons Film Festival, Siverdocs Film Festival, Audience Award; Philadelphia Cinefest, Audience Award; Provincetown Film Festival, Best Documentary.

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