Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 7 (part 1/5)

"The Empire of Signs" (Episode Seven)

General Paul Tibbets interview clip is shown, about the atomic bomb.

link below to playlist of all "American Vision" episodes:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF4A4CCB9DB13FEF

America's sense of "mission on earth"....Imperial America..

America in the 1950s: "A vulgar, innocent, triumphal paradise".

interview clip with Clement Greenberg.

Jackson Pollock's life and work is explored, who "American culture never got over it's surprise in producing."

clips of Jackson Pollock is shown, and of his shrine/home.

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• Robert-Hughes
• Paul-Tibbets
• Clement-Greenberg
• Jackson-Pollock
• American-Visions
• Art-History

[iDraw3G]

@ALTHEGREAT101 you don't have a job, do you?

[eecortese]

also at 2:16.

Thank you

[eecortese]

At 7:08, can someone confirm that the music is from English composer Ralph Vaughn Williams “Concerto for Oboe” (possibly conducted by William Boughton.)

Thank you

[OscarCommie]

Thank you very much for posting this.

[ALTHEGREAT101]

I am no Hughes fan, but as a cultural historian this is excellent work.