The Empire of signs [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), Clement Greenberg, Willem de Kooning, Karal Ann Marling, Jasper Johns, Henry Louis Gates, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Kirk Varnedoe.
Summary:
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, Robert Rauschenberg, Romare Bearden, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns reacted to the new consumer culture.
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.