The Artist as social critic; visionary

The first half of this program shows how painters have expressed their ideas about relationships between people, vice, injustice, human folly and achievement. It includes examples of social criticism by Goya, Hogarth, Rivera, David and Shahn. The painter as visionary is examined in the works of Blake, Bosch, Dali, de Chirico and Klee in the second section.

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Credits

production company

Center for Humanities

co-producer

John G. Danza

Jim Maguire

Leslie Ann Nathan

director

Eve Cotton

Duration

00:25:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1986

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303594

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Art and society

Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists

Crafts & Visual Arts → Dali, Salvador, 1904-1989

Crafts & Visual Arts → Klee, Paul, 1879-1940

Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters

Crafts & Visual Arts → Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957

People → Dali, Salvador, 1904-1989

People → Klee, Paul, 1879-1940

People → Rivera, Diego, 1886-1957

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

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Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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United States, 1986

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