The Artist as social critic; visionary

United States, 1986

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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.

Credits

director

Eve Cotton

co-producer

Leslie Ann Nathan

Jim Maguire

John G. Danza

production company

Center for Humanities

Language

English

Duration

00:25:00:00

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