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Campbell McGrath reads at the U-M Museum of Art on January 27, 2011

Campbell McGrath

One small historical moment

by Keith Taylor

posted 1/13/2011

American artists of all kinds have attempted from time to time to take on the whole sprawl of the continent and our national history upon it. It is surprising that more have not tried to work with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, that first effort to extend the country’s destiny—which may or may not have been manifest to all ­observers—across the continent.

 
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