Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism
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Play S1 E1Art movements were rife with hocus pocus during the early part of the twentieth century. Commissioning Editor Waldemar Januszczak as part of a major arts series looking at the history of Modernism.
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Season 1
4 episodes
- 1. Is Anybody There?The occult roots of abstract painting, especially the influence of Theosophy on Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Kazimir Malevich and Frantisek Kupka are also mentioned at the beginning of the programme but we don’t hear anything more about them.CCMar 8, 1995
- 2. Art and the CIAA history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA front for channelling money to avant-garde exhibitions and literary magazines during the Cold War.CCMar 15, 1995
- 3. A Clean White WorldModernist architecture as a reaction to, and proposed solution for, the squalor of 19th-century city life. Also the similarity between the impulses that drove the Modernist architectural ideal, and the later health and purity obsessions of European fascist states.CCMar 22, 1995
- 4. Painting with the EnemyThe inadvertent way in which the animus towards “degenerate art” shared by the Nazis and the Vichy regime in occupied France helped sustain Modernism during the war years.CCMar 29, 1995
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Art movements were rife with hocus pocus during the early part of the twentieth century. Commissioning Editor Waldemar Januszczak as part of a major arts series looking at the history of Modernism.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Jeremy Bugler, Frances Stonor Saunders, Christopher Spencer
- Studio
- Fulmar TV & Film
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English
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