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Hughes laid the groundwork for the issue by trekking to more than 100 cities, including Charlottesville, Va., home of Monticello, "where you couldn't sit down because everything was a historical monument," and Prout's Neck, Maine, where he looked upon the same "great, severe coastline" that inspired Winslow Homer. His cross-country expedition produced an eight-part mini-series, also called American Visions, which will air on PBS from May 28 to June 18, and a 635-page companion volume just published by Alfred A. Knopf...
...Winslow Homer's The Veteran in a New Field...
...none of any merit--that shows a battle from the worst trauma in the country's history, the Civil War. In fact, the best Civil War painting doesn't show a war and has only one figure in it. It is The Veteran in a New Field, 1865, by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). In an earlier America, there wasn't even much past to remember; there are no Puritan monuments, for instance, except for individual gravestones. Memory had to be imported. This was very much the point of the style that became the official architectural language of the Revolution: neoclassicism...
...second section was one of the most stirring pieces of the evening. It began with a processional, the dancers walking slowly in white suits, dresses and pants, with white fans and huge parasols, against a backdrop of blue light. It was a scene right out of one of Winslow Homer's Caribbean watercolors. The song "Wade in the Water" was danced by three people, who crossed through the "water": two dark and light turquoise blue strips of material, rippling like waves across the stage. In this symbolic baptism, a couple was led by a third woman who brought them back...
...None. 3B: None. 2B: Vermont--Winslow, Mattuchio; Harvard--None E: None...