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| | Terra Foundation for American Art: Symposia: Doss Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Among American art scholars, the new narrative of American modernism is similarly driven by understandings that its standard trajectory from representational to nonobjective modes of painting, culminating in the critical conquest of Abstract Expressionism, is limiting and exclusive. |
 | | Likewise, it is important to recognize that early American modernist resolutions were rarely attained because flux and uncertainty, not stability and closure, were the key elements in an open-ended and dynamic modern world, and because issues of power and authority undermined more egalitarian aspirations regarding the boundaries of class, race, and gender. |
 | | The American Historical Epic was originally proposed as a series of ten chapters with five panels each, ranging in theme from European arrival, conquest, confrontation, and settlement in the New World, through frontier exploration, slavery, the Civil War, and the emergence of modern American industry; Benton completed only three chapters, ending with colonial history. |
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