Invitation to Art; Love and Marriage

Item Information

Title:
Invitation to Art; Love and Marriage
Description:
Dr. O'Doherty traces the ideal of romantic love from the Troubadours, Petrarch and the Elizabethans poets to Hollywood. He leads the viewer on adventures through the exquisitely stages, sublimated dream world of Watteau. Sculpture form India and Ancient Egypt lead to discussion of varying marriage customs. Poetic quotations and other literary references deepen the scope and impact of this program, which shows a definite change in mood from its lighthearted beginning to a more serious conclusion. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) This series explores man and the world around him through the eyes of artists, past and present, and aims to develop an understanding of art as a direct expression of universal emotions. As the host, Dr. Brian O'Doherty, young Irish poet, painter, and art critic, brings a fresh, witty and warmly human point of view to the visual arts. In the first season (episodes 1 - 15), O'Doherty follows, through these arts, the cycle of man from childhood to old age and explores the society in which man lives in all its aspects - tragic, comic, and mundane. Dr. O'Doherty uses works of art now on display in the galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, to illustrate the episodes. Patricia Barnard of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts supervises production. Her assistant is Thalia Kennedy of the Museum staff. In the second season (episodes 16 - 30), each episode either examines in detail the work and thought of one of the great artists of the past, or consists of skillful and sympathetic interviews by Dr. O'Doherty of distinguished living artists who have had a powerful influence upon the art of today. In the third season (episode 31 - 34), Dr. O'Doherty interviews a distinguished American artist who have had a powerful influence upon the art of today. In the fourth season (episodes 35 - 41), a pattern of ideas evolves, revealing the various roles of the artist. This series was originally record in black and white on kinescope. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Production company:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Author:
O'Doherty, Brian
Author:
Vento, Frank
Author:
Noble, Paul
Author:
Kennedy, Thalia
Author:
Barnard, Patricia
Host:
O'Doherty, Brian
Date:
1960
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive > Invitation to Art
Subjects:
Education
Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
O'Doherty, Brian
Field, Erastus Salisbury, 1805-1900
PAINTING
Sculpture
Weddings
Art & Arts
Marriage
Love
Extent:
00:29:13
Link to Item:
https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-dv1cj87t6b
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Presented by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the WGBH Educational Foundation
Notes:
Episode Number: 2