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Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 3

Art / 3 minutes of reading / April 10, 2020 / By HDclump

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 3: This episode looks at America’s most controversial cultural territory – the interstitial America of small towns and trailer parks. As his road trip takes him from Iowa to Tennessee, Waldemar Januszczak discovers how this much maligned territory had an immensely beneficial impact on American art. From the small town brilliance of Grant Wood, to the small town alienation of Edward Hopper, to the spooky Dust Bowl symbolism of Alexandre Hogue, interstitial America inspired much that was great. The film culminates in the brilliant assemblages of David […]

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Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 2

Art / 3 minutes of reading / April 9, 2020 / By HDclump

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA episode 2: This episode is set in the American metropolis – the soaring new cities of the East Coast with their futuristic skylines and lofty skyscrapers. But instead of looking up at the futuristic towers, Waldemar Januszczak explores the squalid boxing rings painted by George Bellows, Reginald Mash’s decadent awaydays on Coney Island and the crazy escape into theosophy and abstraction mounted by Thomas Wilfred. The film culminates in the harsh immigrant experience of Ellis Island and the profound impact that rootlessness had on the art of Mark

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