ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the various media and available sources critically, and reviews cross-reference supplied to relevant materials. Very rarely does a film focus on a particular area long enough for spectators to form their interpretation of it, and by its nature the film moves on to another aspect at its own pace and not that of the spectator. There are virtually no films available which illustrate changing attitudes through iconology, or which place the art objectively before the pupils for their own analysis. The most detailed history of art available is the series History of Western Art, which covers painting, sculpture and architecture, and is principally designed for those taking public examinations in the history of art. Works of art provide an idiosyncratic mode of evidence for the history teacher which is embodied in their language and the only way this can really be exploited is in the presence of the original.
