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Conflict of visions

Author: Tug Yourgrau; Joel Olicker; WGBH Educational Foundation.
Publisher: Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation, ©1987.
Edition/Format:   VHS video : VHS tape   Visual material
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Examines the Boston art scene in the late l930s and l940s, where traditional conservative artistic taste clashed with the emerging Boston Expressionists trained at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School. Focuses on the artists' relationship to the newly formed Institute of Modern Art, and the uproar which resulted when its director, James Plaut, issued a statement viewed as antagonistic to artists explaining the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Video recordings
Interviews
Named Person: Nelson W Aldrich; Pamela Allara; Hyman Bloom; Bernard Chaet; Ralph Coburn; Lloyd Goodrich; James S Plaut; Barbara Swan
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Tug Yourgrau; Joel Olicker; WGBH Educational Foundation.
OCLC Number: 79269786
Notes: First broadcast on WGBH January 1988.
Description: 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Details: VHS.
Responsibility: producer, Tug Yourgrau; editor, Joel Olicker.

Abstract:

Examines the Boston art scene in the late l930s and l940s, where traditional conservative artistic taste clashed with the emerging Boston Expressionists trained at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School. Focuses on the artists' relationship to the newly formed Institute of Modern Art, and the uproar which resulted when its director, James Plaut, issued a statement viewed as antagonistic to artists explaining the change of name of the museum to the Institute of Contemporary Art. Discussing the events are artists Barbara Swan, Bernard Chaet, Ralph Coburn and Hyman Bloom, ICA director James Plaut and president Nathanial Saltonstall, art historian Pamela Allara, Nelson Aldrich and Lloyd Goodrich.

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