From see to shining see. (Time magazine art critic Robert Hughes will host an 8-part television show about American art that will air in the US in May 1997)(Brief Article)

Economist (US), The, November, 1996

THAT most American of poets, Walt Whitman, described his country as "not merely a nation but a teaming nation of nations", and its art displays that same swarming profusion. Indeed, Robert Hughes (shown above) bases a new television series, "American Visions", on the premise that American art tells America's story. Interweaving art and social history, the eight-part survey has just been shown in Mr Hughes's native Australia, starts on British screens on November 3rd and will appear in America in May.

Television has never before attempted a full-scale account of American art, and the project is tailor-made for Mr Hughes. Since 1970 he has been the much-praised art critic of Time magazine, but he is also the author of two best-selling historical works, "The Fatal...

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