The Shock of the New(1980)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1980-09-21
Average Runtime: 58m
Rating: 6.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
The renowned definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by Australian art critic Robert Hughes.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 8E01
The Mechanical Paradise
Air Date: 1980-09-21
The irruption of the machine as a catalyst for the change in the forms and visions of artists in the early twentieth ...
E02
The Powers That Be
Air Date: 1980-09-28
After the WW1 art is not indifferent to the change that the catastrophe had been. A provocative and ironic art, Dadai...
E03
The Landscape of Pleasure
Air Date: 1980-10-05
Throughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in t...
E04
Trouble in Utopia
Air Date: 1980-10-12
The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.
E05
The Threshold of Liberty
Air Date: 1980-10-19
Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
E06
The View from the Edge
Air Date: 1980-10-26
The interior of the mind, the obsessions and the forces that dominate life, form the work of modern artists from van ...
E07
Culture as Nature
Air Date: 1980-11-02
In the mid-twentieth century the symbols of modern culture reflect the power of the media. Advertising, radio and tel...
E08
The Future That Was
Air Date: 1980-11-09
The end of modernity makes Robert Hughes raise the trajectory of art and its surroundings during the twentieth centur...
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