Invitation to Art; 27; Leonard Baskin

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Series
Invitation to Art
Episode Number
27
Episode
Leonard Baskin
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-512-qj77s7jt96
NOLA Code
IART
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Description
Episode Description
Leonard Baskin, another controversial and exciting modern artists, is interviewed on this program. He is a man of strong opinions, and his dogmatic approach to art and philosophy may irritate some viewers, but his remarks are highly useful to an understanding of the modern art movement. Through comment, conversation, and the showing of several of Baskin's works, Dr. O'Doherty evokes these strong opinions from the artist. Among other ideas expressed by Baskin is the thought that we live today in a ghastly world, one in which the nature and value of the human individual is under tremendous pressure. Baskin explains that his art is an attempt to support the worth and nobility of the human being against the conflicts of age. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
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)
Broadcast Date
1962
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Talk Show
Topics
Fine Arts
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:29:21
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Credits
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Library of Congress
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Format: 1 inch videotape: SMPTE Type C
Generation: Master
Color: B&W
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Color: B&W
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Duration: 00:29:21
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Citations
Chicago: “Invitation to Art; 27; Leonard Baskin,” 1962, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed October 7, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-qj77s7jt96.
MLA: “Invitation to Art; 27; Leonard Baskin.” 1962. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. October 7, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-qj77s7jt96>.
APA: Invitation to Art; 27; Leonard Baskin. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-qj77s7jt96