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The Age of Anxiety
8/8Robert Hughes focuses on work that responded to the Vietnam War and civil strife.
The Empire of Signs
7/8Robert Hughes examines America's development into the art capital of the west.
Streamlines and Breadlines
6/8Robert Hughes considers America during the 1920s and 30s, including the Depression.
The Wave from the Atlantic
5/8Robert Hughes examines how poverty and slum life was often reflected in American art.
The Gilded Age
4/8Robert Hughes considers how the Civil War industrialised society.
The Wilderness and the West
3/8Art critic Robert Hughes looks at America's majestic landscapes.
The Promised Land
2/8Robert Hughes explains how America was shaped by Europeans.
The Republic of Virtue
1/8Robert Hughes explores how America sought architectural inspiration from Greece and Rome.
