American Visions S01E05 · A Wave from the Atlantic

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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.

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1. 1 1. The Republic of Virtue1997-05-28 · 10h 0mRobert 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.
2. 2 2. The Promised Land1997-06-04 · 1h 0mRobert Hughes explains how America was shaped by Europeans.
3. 3 3. The Wilderness and the West1997-06-11 · 1h 0mArt critic Robert Hughes looks at America's majestic landscapes, exploring how artists have contributed to the religious and patriotic connotations of nature.
4. 4 4. The Gilded Age1997-06-18 · 1h 0mRobert Hughes considers how the Civil War industrialised society, bringing steam power, the Brooklyn Bridge, plutocrats and an urban underclass. Nostalgia for loss entered the cult
5. 5 5. A Wave from the Atlantic1997-06-25 · 1h 0mMass 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
6. 6 6. Streamlines and Breadlines1997-07-02 · 1h 0mRobert Hughes considers America during the 1920s and 30s, including the skyscraper as the image of modernism, the Depression, regionalist art and black art.
7. 7 7. The Empire of Signs1997-07-09 · 1h 0mRobert 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.
8. 8 8. The Age of Anxiety1997-07-16 · 1h 0mRobert 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.