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New World Visions: American Art and the Metropolitan Museum, Part 2 (1840-1914) - Currently Unavailable
In Part 2 of a two-part series, writer/host
Vincent Scully surveys American art and design from the mid-nineteenth
century to the outbreak of World War I, charting significant shifts in
the relationship of Americans to their land and to their society. Artists
turned away from portraiture in favor of landscape painting, which embodied
science, natural good, divinity, and American nationalism, as exemplified
by the Hudson River school (Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Edwin Church, Asher
B. Durand) and the Luminist painters (William Sidney Mount, George Caleb
Bingham, John Frederick Kensett, Fitzhugh Lane, Martin Johnson Heade).
Looks at the paintings of Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and John Singer
Sargent; the architecture of the Shakers and of Henry Hobson Richardson,
Louis Sullivan, Cass Gilbert, and Frank Lloyd Wright; and the sculpture
of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Also visits Gettysburg National Military Park
in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., and touches on the mythology of
the American West as depicted in the photography of the period and, later
on, in the films of John Ford.Curator's Comments: Scully is erudite but always clear and accessible. The program covers a lot of territory, and a lot of works, leaving the viewer wishing for more time to linger before being whisked to the next item. Together, these two programs (Parts 1 and 2) offer an outstanding survey of the first two hundred years of American art. DATE: 1983 COUNTRY: United States CREDITS: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: TOPICS:
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