The Shock of the New - Season 1

The Shock of the New - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesSep 21, 1980 - Nov 9, 1980

Episodes

The Mechanical Paradise
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.
Sep 21, 1980
The Powers That Be
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.
Sep 28, 1980
The Landscape of Pleasure
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.
Oct 5, 1980
Trouble in Utopia
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.
Oct 12, 1980
The Threshold of Liberty
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.
Oct 19, 1980
The View from the Edge
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.
Oct 26, 1980
Culture as Nature
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
The Future That Was
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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