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Play S1 E1The renowned definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by Australian art critic Robert Hughes.
Cast: Robert Hughes
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Season 1
8 episodes
- 1. The Mechanical ParadiseThe 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.CC1 h 0 minSep 21, 1980
- 2. The Powers That BeAfter 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.CC1 h 0 minSep 28, 1980
- 3. The Landscape of PleasureThroughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.CCOct 5, 1980
- 4. Trouble in UtopiaThe architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.CCOct 12, 1980
- 5. The Threshold of LibertySurrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.CCOct 19, 1980
- 6. The View from the EdgeThe 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.CCOct 26, 1980
- 7. Culture as NatureIn 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.CCNov 2, 1980
- 8. The Future That WasThe 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.CCNov 9, 1980
The Shock of the New
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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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- Robert Hughes
- Cast
- Robert Hughes
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- BBC
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