Intent of Art: Art as Social Order

Duration: 33

Year Published: 1960

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

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.

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