The Shock of the New
| The Shock of the New | |
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| Directed by | Robert Hughes |
| Release date(s) | 1980 |
The Shock of the New is a 1980 documentary television series by Robert Hughes produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Films and RM Productions. It was broadcast by the BBC in 1980 in the United Kingdom and by PBS in 1981 in the United States.[1][2] It addressed the development of modern art since the Impressionists and was accompanied by a book of the same name; its combination of insight, wit and accessibility are still widely praised.
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Series outline [edit]
The series consisted of 8 episodes each one hour long (when broadcast without advertisements):
- The mechanical paradise - The influence of technology on art from 1880 to 1918
- The powers that be - The relationship and conflicts between modern art and authority
- The landscape of pleasure - Artists' visions of paradise 1870s to 1950s
- Trouble in utopia - Modern architecture
- The threshold of liberty - Surrealism
- The view from the edge - Expressionism
- Culture as nature - Pop Art
- The future that was - The commercialisation of Modern Art.
Book [edit]
The book of the series was published in 1980 by the BBC under the title The shock of the new: Art and the century of change.[3] It was republished in 1991 by Thames and Hudson.[4]
Video releases [edit]
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Follow ups [edit]
In 2004 Hughes created a one hour update to The Shock of the New titled The New Shock of the New.[5]
References [edit]
- ^ Episode guide
- ^ The Shock of the New on PBS
- ^ . ISBN 0-563-17780-2. Missing or empty
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|title=(help) - ^ Robert Hughes on updating The Shock Of The New
