Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 1 (part 1/5)

"The Republic of Virtue"

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"When we look at Americans thru the lens of their art, what do we see?"

influence of Ancient Greece and Rome....a visit to Las Vegas (Caesars Mall, now expanded,re-designed and more splendiferious, is called "The Forum Shops at Caesars")

foundating of Washington DC, and the plans made for the capitol.

Thomas Jefferson is discussed, and a visit is made to Monticello.

originally aired on US television in 1997

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Education

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• Robert-Hughes
• American-Visions
• Art
• History
• Washington-DC
• Thomas-Jefferson
• Monticello
• Caesars-Mall

[ANDPRY]

The incomparable Robert Hughes- perhaps the last true art critic of our day.

He has a historical depth of vision on art that is non existent in the "art as business" of today...

[TheSnowballEarth]

One of the most brilliant non-fiction series that PBS ever produced. Thanks so much for posting this!

[insomniacgrace]

thanks for having this posted. Nice!

[Eldeecue]

Thanks for this a thousand times over.

[afterapplepicking]

Hey, wow! Thanks for posting. I've never seen this before.

[ptose]

does anybody knows what is the music at 3:46?

[xann1]

@ANDPRY Airy fairy wankers like you keep this piece of shit employed and in the media. I just did a huge shit and wiped my arse if you look closely it kind of resembles robert hughes. would you like to come and critique it?

[xann1]

embryohead cmon buddy thats gotta be 2 thumbs up. You know it.

[embryohead]

@xann1 I don't know whether to thumbs-up or thumbs-down that one!

[xann1]

Pity the cunt can't drive for shit