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Time magazine critic and writer of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.

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Director: John Bush, David Willcock
Writing: Robert Hughes
Status: Ended
First aired: May 28, 1997
Network: PBS

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6 hrs

8 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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American Visions

19971 Season9.0

Documentary

TMDB9.0

Votes1

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Genre: Documentary
Origin: US

About

Time magazine critic and writer of the highly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs May 28, 1997 · 10h 0m
The Republic of Virtue
Robert Hughes charts the foundation of a national identity that sought architectural inspiration from Greece and Rome. He also looks at America's earliest major painters.
E2 · Airs Jun 4, 1997 · 1h 0m
The Promised Land
Robert Hughes explains how America was shaped by Europeans.
E3 · Airs Jun 11, 1997 · 1h 0m
The Wilderness and the West
Art critic Robert Hughes looks at America's majestic landscapes, exploring how artists have contributed to the religious and patriotic connotations of nature.
E4 · Airs Jun 18, 1997 · 1h 0m
The Gilded Age
Robert Hughes considers how the Civil War industrialised society, bringing steam power, the Brooklyn Bridge, plutocrats and an urban underclass. Nostalgia for loss entered the culture and brought the Museum Age.
E5 · Airs Jun 25, 1997 · 1h 0m
A Wave from the Atlantic
Mass immigration at the turn of the century confirmed America as a multicultural society but also brought increased poverty and slum life. Robert Hughes examines how this was often reflected in art.
E6 · Airs Jul 2, 1997 · 1h 0m
Streamlines and Breadlines
Robert Hughes considers America during the 1920s and 30s, including the skyscraper as the image of modernism, the Depression, regionalist art and black art.
E7 · Airs Jul 9, 1997 · 1h 0m
The Empire of Signs
Robert Hughes examines America's development into the art capital of the west between 1945 and the late 1960s, with the advent of abstract expressionism and pop art.
E8 · Airs Jul 16, 1997 · 1h 0m
The Age of Anxiety
Robert Hughes focuses on work that responded to the Vietnam War and civil strife. He traces the development of minimalism and ends up on top of an extinct volcano.

Details

Director: John Bush, David Willcock
Writing: Robert Hughes
Status: Ended
First aired: May 28, 1997
Network: PBS

Time to finish

6 hrs

8 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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