The Shock of the New - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes8
DatesSept. 21, 1980 - Nov. 9, 1980
Episodes
Season 1Episode 160 min
The Mechanical Paradise
Series on the development of modern art from 1880 to the present, presented by Robert Hughes. How technology influenced art between 1880 and end of WWI.
Sept. 21, 1980
Season 1Episode 260 min
The Powers That Be
Robert Hughes examines the relationship between art and authority by looking at Dadaism and the art of political movements such as fascism and Soviet communism. Featuring works by Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Otto Dix and George Grosz.
Sept. 28, 1980
Season 1Episode 360 min
The Landscape of Pleasure
Robert Hughes examines art's relationship with the pleasures of nature, its place in them and man's understanding of them. Featuring works by Georges Seurat, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.
Okt. 5, 1980
Season 1Episode 460 min
Trouble in Utopia
Robert Hughes's classic series about art in the twentieth century. This edition deals with the aspirations and reality of the art in which we live, architecture.
Okt. 12, 1980
Season 1Episode 560 min
The Threshold of Liberty
Robert Hughes's classic series about art in the twentieth century. Hughes examines the surrealists and their attempts to make art without restrictions.
Okt. 19, 1980
Season 1Episode 660 min
The View from the Edge
Robert Hughes grapples with the artists who made visual art from the crags and vistas of their internal world - the Expressionists, including Van Gogh, De Kooning, Pollock and beyond.
Okt. 26, 1980
Season 1Episode 760 min
Culture as Nature
Robert Hughes goes Pop when he examines the art that referred to the man-made world that fed off culture itself via works by Rauchenberg, Warhol and Lichtenstein.
Nov. 2, 1980
Season 1Episode 860 min
The Future That Was
Robert Hughes slips down the decline of modernism and examines how artists have dealt with commercialisation. Artists include Bridget Reilly and David Hockney.
Nov. 9, 1980
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