Masterpiece Moment: The Americans - Robert Frank's Road Trip

Robert Frank’s The Americans looks like a road trip, but it feels more like a cracked mirror held up to postwar America. In this episode of Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History, James William Moore follows Frank across the highways, diners, jukeboxes, parades, cemeteries, sidewalks, and lonely rooms of 1950s America. Published in 1958 in France and 1959 in the United States, The Americans challenged the glossy national story of prosperity, confidence, and cheerful conformity. Instead o...