A Wave from the Atlantic [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), Alfred Kazin (historian), Marcel Duchamp, Frank Lloyd Wright, Maria Chabot.
Summary:
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 Joseph Stella, Paul Strand, Alfred Stieglitz, forge a modernism that is uniquely American. Also presents the work of Robert Henri, George Bellows, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mabel Dodge Luhand, Marsden Hartley and Frank Lloyd Wright.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.