Reverence as Virtue in
American Art
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TFAO also suggests these videos:
American Vision: The History of American Art and Architecture produced
by Planet 24 in association with BBC Television; a Time Inc.-BBC co-production;
produced in association with Thirteen/WNET. eight videocassettes. 60 minutes
each. PBS Video, 1996. "In this eight-part series, Robert Hughes, the
renowned art critic for Time magazine, takes viewers on an exuberant
guided tour through 200 years of our visual culture, vividly illustrating
how art conveys deep messages about who America is as a nation. Available
through the Sullivan
Video Library at The Speed Art Museum which holds a sizable collection
of art-related videos available to educators at no charge. Description source:
Amon Carter Museum Teacher Resource
Center. Video clips below are from YouTube.
- The Republic of Virtue "Demonstrates how the new republic
adopts and transforms the classical style to serve a new, democratic ideal.
Examples range from heroic statues of George Washington to the architecture
of Thomas Jefferson."
Episode one titled "The
Republic of Virtue" part
1 of 5 10:48; part
2 of 5 10:54; part
3 of 5 10:57; part
4 of 5 10:58; part
5 of 5 10:57
- The Promised Land "Explores ways that religion had a fundamental
impact on the shaping of American culture. From the Spanish missions in
New Mexico to the Puritan churches of New England, a new American culture
emerges through architecture and portraiture." Episode two
titled "The Promised Land" part
1 of 6 10:41; part 2
of 6 8:37; part
3 of 6 8:59; part
4 of 6 10:42; part
5 of 6 9:31; part
6 of 6 6:35
- The Wilderness and the West "Travels from Yellowstone to
the Hudson Valley via works of artists Albert Bierstadt (1830--1902), John
James Audubon (1785--1851), Frederic Church (1826--1900), Frederic Remington
(1861--1909), and Thomas Cole (1801--1848)." Episode three
titled "The Wilderness and the West" covering The US West, Manifest
Destiny, and national identity part
1 of 6 10:46; part
2 of 6 10:37; part
3 of 6 9:36; part
4 of 6 9:09; part
5 of 6 7:29; part
6 of 6 7:25
- The Gilded Age "Reveals widely different experiences of
the American Dream through images of the Brooklyn Bridge, photographs of
the Civil War, portraiture, and impressionist and realist paintings."
Episode four titled "The Gilded Age" part
1 of 5 10:57; part
2 of 5 10:57; part
3 of 5 10:55; part
4 of 5 10:57; part
5 of 5 10:58
- A Wave from the Atlantic "Describes the impact of the waves
of immigrants in the early-20th century. Follows the development of the
socially conscious art circle called the Ashcan School, the historic 1913
Armory Show, and the artists who forged a modernism that is uniquely American"
Episode five titled "A Wave from the Atlantic"
part 1 of 5; 10:54; part
2 of 5 9:40 part
3 of 5 10:58; part
4 of 5 10:58; part
5 of 5 10:57
- Streamlines and Breadlines "Compares the mythic images
of the 1920s and 30s, as urban as the skyscrapers rising up in New York
and as rural as the heartland realized by regionalist painters like Thomas
Hart Benton (1889-1975)." Episode six titled
"Streamlines and Breadlines" part
1 of 5 10:57; part
2 of 5 10:58; part
3 of 5 10:57; part
4 of 5 10:58; part
5 of 5 10:58
- The Empire of Signs "Details how America's power becomes
unrivaled in the post-war era, and how artists of the period make an explosive
break with the past. Considers the impact of Hiroshima on art, traces the
development of abstract expressionism and the life of Jackson Pollock,
and explores how artists as different as James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg,
Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns reacted to the new consumer culture."
Episode seven titled "The Empire of Signs"
part
1 of 5 10:57; part
2 of 5 10:57; part
3 of 5 10:58; part
4 of 5 10:58; part
5 of 5 10:58
- The Age of Anxiety" "Explores how American art reflects
the upheavals of the last twenty-five years, from the evolution of abstract
art to minimalism. The program also considers the spiritual richness of
earth works, in which nature is the artist's medium." Episode eight
titled "The Age of Anxiety" part
1 of 5 10:55; part
2 of 5 10:52; part
3 of 5 10:50; part
4 of 5 10:55; part
5 of 5 10:57
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