About this episode
TV-UNDine and Discover October 8, 12-1pmHigher Ground is the first permanent installation devoted to the creative achievements of important artists active since the late 19th century whose lives and legacies are closely linked to East Tennessee. Jack Neely and Frederick Moffatt discuss the history of art in Knoxville, and explore how the development of Knoxville’s art communities changed in relation to Knoxville’s growth.Frederick C. Moffatt, whose special interests are nineteenth and twentieth-century American art, has been on the University of Tennessee faculty since 1969. He is a graduate of Arizona State University, M. A., and the University of Chicago, Ph.D. He is the author of a number of articles and catalogs, including work on Robert Henri, Arthur Wesley Dow, 1857-1922, (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977), and Errant Bronzes: George Gray Barnard’s Statues of Abraham Lincoln(University of Delaware Press, 1998).
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Category
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Release Date
Oct 10, 2008
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Runtime
23:10
