Artists Must Live (1953)

Name: Artists Must Live
Director: John Read
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1953-06-30
Duration: 28 min
Cast: Reg Butler, Clifford Ellis, Patrick Heron, Ivor Hitchens, Rodrigo Moynihan

Little in life comes free: one question that should be asked of any art form is who's paying for it.

28m 1953

Documentary

Art historian Basil Taylor presents the film and interviews several of its subjects, in between leisurely sequences surveying paintings and sculptures to the strains of the BBC Radio Orchestra.