Word: hugheses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hughes begins his series by examining how the brand-new United States sought a national visual style that would express its values. It found a model in the ancient republics of Greece and Rome. Classicism, says Hughes, gave the country "a language of power and authority and continuity to the...
The show traces how, from Jefferson's time to our own, classical models have shaped our buildings and sculpture, providing symbols for everything from the dollar bill to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The city of Washington was planned and built according to such models, and structures like the Washington...
Only 50 years after the nation's founding, the concept of Arcadia was passing. "The fear of decline started to nag at the edges of the American consciousness," Hughes notes. The show ends by focusing on one of the artists who memorably reflected that fear, Thomas Cole. He created a...
Ranging from a remote mesa in New Mexico to a graveyard in Massachusetts, Hughes in this episode explores how religion has shaped American culture. He starts with 16th century Spanish missions, the sites of the first big cultural collision between Europeans and natives. It resulted in both the mass slaughter...
The Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham...