"The Empire of Signs" (Episode Seven)
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Detroit cars of the 1950s, dripping in chrome, the "rolling baroque public sculpture of an America gone forever." segment concluded.
The Cold War and symbols of America, especially the flag - the "most recognizable abstraction in the world".
interview clip with Jasper Johns
Joseph Cornell, assemblage, and the Surrealists
and another "scavenger of genius" - Robert Rauschenberg. He visits with Hughes.
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