The Wilderness and the West [videorecording] / written & presented by Robert Hughes ; a Planet 24 production in association with BBC Television ; a Time Inc.-BBC co-production ; produced in association with Thirteen/WNET.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
PBS Home Video,
Copyright Date:
1997
Description:
1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
Originally produced in 1966 for PBS. Closed-captioned. Robert Hughes (art critic), Richard Slotkin, James Ryan, Arthur Amiotte.
Summary:
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, Hughes explores the artists Thomas Cole, John Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, John Gast, Currier & Ives, Emanuel Leutze, George Catlin, Frederick Church, Frederic Remington, Thomas Noran and William Jackson. In their work he finds the conflicting impulses to worship the land and to conquer it, to create a myth of the West just as the frontier is closing.
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