The Shock of the New
(1980)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 1
The Future That Was
Episode 8 - 11-09-1980
The 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.
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Culture as Nature
Episode 7 - 11-02-1980
In 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.
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The View from the Edge
Episode 6 - 10-26-1980
The 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.
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The Threshold of Liberty
Episode 5 - 10-19-1980
Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
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Trouble in Utopia
Episode 4 - 10-12-1980
The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.
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The Landscape of Pleasure
Episode 3 - 10-05-1980
Throughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.
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The Powers That Be
Episode 2 - 9-28-1980
After 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.
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The Mechanical Paradise
Episode 1 - 9-21-1980
The 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.
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