How Abstract Expressionism Changed American Art
Season 33
Episode 11
About the Episode
In post World War II New York City, a new group of artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, & Clyfford Still started a movement known as Abstract Expressionism and took the art world by storm.
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Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call [Extended Audio Description]
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Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call [ASL]
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Gioncarlo Valentine: Exposures [ASL]
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