Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 6 (part 2/5)

"Steamlines and Breadlines"

the Crash and the Great Depression

go here for a playlist of all the "American Visions" uploads:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF4A4CCB9DB13FEF

Hugh Ferriss and his NYC skyscraper drawings...Raymond Hood and his foyer at the New York Daily News..

interview with Jack Levine and Vincent Campanella, WPA artists

clips of Diego Rivera painting.... Lewis-Hine's photography

The Hoover Dam, a visit to what enabled folks to have thier "ecologically impertinent lawn" in the desert southwest.

Blacks move out to the north, story told through a series of paintings, "The Great Migration", by Jacob Lawrence.

interview with Jacob Lawrence.

originally aired on US television in 1997

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Education

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