American Vision Volume 7: The Empire of Signs

ID #: 
556
Playing Time: 
60 min
Color or BW: 
Color and B&W
Description: 
Hosted by Robert Hughes he considers the impact of Hiroshima on art, traces the development of abstract expressionism and the life of Jackson Pollack, and explores how artists as different as James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns reacted to the new consumer culture.
Keywords: 
20th century, abstract art, Andy Warhol, art, atomic bomb, Claes Oldenburg, consumer culture, expressionist, Hiroshima, Jackson Pollack, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, Joseph Cornell, modern art, United States
Volume: 
vol 7