July/August 2005
In This Issue July/August 2005
Life Through Art’s Prism
British writer Paul Johnson talks with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the history of art and its place in America.
Volume 26, Issue 4
Detail from Sloop, Nassau by Winslow Homer, 1899.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1910 (10.228.3) © 1989
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Features
American Modernists
An exhibition focuses on the twentieth-century artists who created a new aesthetic.
By Susan SaccocciaThe Unconventional Willa Cather
After conquering the world of New York publishing, an ambitious writer returns to her Nebraska roots to find inspiration.
By Janis JohnsonErnest Hemingway
A documentary sets the inner voice of the writer against the larger-than-life persona he cultivated.
By Cynthia BarnesWhitman's Lifelong Endeavor
The poet who gave a voice to a young nation never stopped trying to capture its ever-changing nature.
By Geoffrey Saunders SchrammTime Travels
A new animated television series drops ten-year-olds into history--from the Battle of Waterloo to life in ancient Rome.
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