Art as Social Order

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Bartlett H. Hayes Jr. Patricia Barnard Cabot Lyford WGBH-TV Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council

Format: 16mm

Description: Discusses religious and secular art as an expression of and a directing force in society. Explains how Chinese and Christian arts helped maintain social order and established images of faith. Contrasts art as individual expression in a free society with art as a propaganda tool under dictatorship. Illustrates with the art objects from the collections in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)

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