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

this extract starts with rest of George Catlin bit. Then Charles King and Charles Deas.
And a long section on Frederic Church - "he wanted what the public wanted and he was rewarded for it."

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

ROBERT HUGHES: Americans are constantly recreating themselves. They are constantly thinking in terms of newness as a regulating factor in a culture in the way that Europeans thought of antiquity. You know, the--this, after all, is the only major culture in the world that was predicated upon the idea of newness right from the start. The Puritans wanted to make a new heaven and a new earth, and this desire was transposed into landscape, into technology, into art -- everything.

originally aired on US television in 1997

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Education

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• Robert
• Hughes
• American
• Visions
• Art
• History
• George
• Catlin
• Frederic
• Church

[afterapplepicking]

When I went to visit with an indian tribe they allowed me to stay with them, and gave me my very own teepee. Which was actually kind of bullshit. Cuz they had houses. Why can't I come in the house and watch TV? I can't be on this grass all night.

[Sajun777]

7:48 or so.. Uber-patriotic flag somehow drawn from the fire and night's sky

"Landscape could not get more cornily drawn than this".. lol

[carsanookdotcom]

The settlers killed the Indians. Extinction. The doomed indigenous inhabitants. 01:55 "The dog knows that".

Art. American art. This is as good as it gets. A fine documentary.

Dr John

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