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

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A history of American art with Waldemar Januszczak..

A history of American art with Waldemar Januszczak.

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Waldemar Januszczak

Simon Russell

Kirsi Pyy

Lidia Ciszewska

Victoria Nosovich

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Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA: Series 1: Episode 2

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A look at the works of George Bellows, Reginald Mash, Thomas Wilfred and Mark Rothko.

Series looking at American art. Waldemar Januszczak is on the East Coast, where he explores the works of George Bellows, Reginald Mash, Thomas Wilfred and Mark Rothko.

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 Rothko.

Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA: Series 1

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