Robert Hughes - American Visions - Episode 4 (part 3/5)

"The Gilden Age" (episode Four)

Winslow Homer (and grand niece Doris Homer) at Prout's Neck, Maine (and the sea - "You are always alone before it").

Winslow Homer: "Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems."

Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his sculpture "The Adams Memorial"

"The technological sublime" and the new engineering age. The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by German-born John Augustus Roebling.

development of the modern skyscraper and Elisha Otis' invention of the elevator ("The most crucial business invention until the computer")

Chicago architecture and Louis Sullivan. The 1899 Carson Pirie Scott Department Store on State Street.

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

originally aired on US television in 1997

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[moogus8000]

@iDraw3G wow, clever retort

[iDraw3G]

@zappa666ful no, only every logical person in the world could put it that way

[zappa666ful]

"The Elevator: the most crucial piece of business technology since the computer." Only Robert Hughes could have put it that way....

[carsanookdotcom]

In American history, the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century (1865-1901).

[graphichic]

Hmmm. I never thought of the elevator as being groundbreaking technology. I've never seen this series before. I've been watching all the episodes. Thanks.