The Shock of the New (1980)

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Runtime: 58m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Art and the century of change.

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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Writing: Robert Hughes
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 21, 1980
Studio: BBC

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8 hrs

8 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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19801 Season58m episodes7.5

Documentary

TMDB7.5

Votes2

Your rating

Runtime: 58m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Art and the century of change.

The renowned definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by Australian art critic Robert Hughes.

Where to watch

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Sep 21, 1980 · 1h 0m
The Mechanical Paradise
The irruption of the machine as a catalyst for the change in the forms and visions of artists in the early twentieth century. Cubism and Futurism as the movement of modern world and embodied in a canvas.
E2 · Airs Sep 28, 1980 · 1h 0m
The Powers That Be
After the WW1 art is not indifferent to the change that the catastrophe had been. A provocative and ironic art, Dadaism was continued by militant leftist artists in Germany. In Russia, the communist revolution attracted modern artists to the fight, believing that they would change society to a fairer world, but they soon saw their utopia failed.
E3 · Airs Oct 5, 1980
The Landscape of Pleasure
Throughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.
E4 · Airs Oct 12, 1980
Trouble in Utopia
The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.
E5 · Airs Oct 19, 1980
The Threshold of Liberty
Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
E6 · Airs Oct 26, 1980
The View from the Edge
The interior of the mind, the obsessions and the forces that dominate life, form the work of modern artists from van Gogh and Munch, to the American abstract expressionists.
E7 · Airs Nov 2, 1980
Culture as Nature
In the mid-twentieth century the symbols of modern culture reflect the power of the media. Advertising, radio and television became the subject of artists. Pop art broke into the scene.
E8 · Airs Nov 9, 1980
The Future That Was
The end of modernity makes Robert Hughes raise the trajectory of art and its surroundings during the twentieth century and doubts about its future and achievements.

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Writing: Robert Hughes
Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 21, 1980
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

8 hrs

8 episodes. About 2 weeks at an hour a night.

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