This Island (1970)

This Island
How the art in the Detroit Institute of Art connects to lifes experiences and the neighborhood

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:January 1st, 1970
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Detroit Institute of Arts Leo Hurwitz Productions The National Endowment for the Arts
Movie Tags:
artmuseum

The Art of Seeing

Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed at deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see. Working with his young second wife, the editor Peggy Lawson, he made four short films comprising The Art of Seeing Series. The films, made without words, are beautiful poems to the pleasure of sight.