Art, American Themes, motives

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The Republic of virtue -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.1

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This first segment examines some of the first images made in America which resemble ancient ones. Jefferson and the founding fathers felt that classicism gave the young nation power and authority. In Washington, D.C. architects adopted and transformed the classical style to se

The Promised land -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.2

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this second segment early settlers in the "Promised land" strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land while in the West, Spanish missions use art to convert the natives. In the East, plain Protestant settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures while in Virginia, an exile

The Promised land -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.2

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this second segment early settlers in the "Promised land" strive to carve out an identity in a virgin land while in the West, Spanish missions use art to convert the natives. In the East, plain Protestant settlers are suspicious of art's pleasures while in Virginia, an exile

The Wilderness and the West -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.3

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this third segment as majestic primal America fosters the idea of landscape as God's fingerprint, landscape painting holds deep religious and patriotic connotations. Soon, the belief in Manifest Destiny is embodied in art. Traveling from Yellowstone to the Hudson Valley, Hug

The Wilderness and the West -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.3

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this third segment as majestic primal America fosters the idea of landscape as God's fingerprint, landscape painting holds deep religious and patriotic connotations. Soon, the belief in Manifest Destiny is embodied in art. Traveling from Yellowstone to the Hudson Valley, Hug

The Gilded age -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.4

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This forth segment examines the many sides of America in the 19th century: the extravagant mansions of Newport's tycoons, the triumph of the Brooklyn Bridge, the haunting realism of Civil War photography, and the artistic creations of John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Mary C

The Gilded age -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.4

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This forth segment examines the many sides of America in the 19th century: the extravagant mansions of Newport's tycoons, the triumph of the Brooklyn Bridge, the haunting realism of Civil War photography, and the artistic creations of John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, Mary C

A Wave from the Atlantic -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.5

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this fifth segment waves of immigrants in the early 20th century bring both their old culture and a thirst for the new. The tenements are documented by photographer Jacob Riis and the socially conscious Ashcan School. Then, after the historic 1913 Armory show, artists like J

Streamlines and breadlines -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.6

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This sixth segment examines the mythic images of the 1920's and 30's as skyscrapers rise in New York and the rural heartland is idealized by Regionalists like Thomas Hart. Artists of the WPA celebrate the worker as hero, while Jacob Lawrence tells stories of black America, and

The Empire of signs -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.7

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. In this seventh segment, after the post-war era, Hughes traces the development of abstract expressionism and the life of Jackson Pollock, and explores how artists as different as James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, David Smith, Willem De Kooning, Rob

The Age of anxiety -- N6505 .A65 1996 VOL.8

An eight part series presenting American history through its visual art, painting, sculpture, architecture and monuments. This final segment explores how American art has reflected the upheavals of the last 25 years. Hughes traces the evolution of abstract art and minimalism and considers the spiritual richness of earth works, in which nature is the artist's medium. He ends the series by profiling