麻豆约拍

At the end of the 19th century, after the trauma of the American Civil War, began the battle to make a truly American art. Andrew visits Philadelphia where he explores the work of Thomas Eakins and Albert Pinkham Ryder, best known for his poetic and moody allegorical paintings. But the age of the machine was rapidly transforming America and creating powerful new cities. Andrew travels to New York and Chicago, and sees the impact of mechanization on the earliest modernists. He looks at the figurative style of Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell and the work of Pollock, DeKooning and Rothko, and argues that abstract expressionism was the first unique and definitive American art.