The Shock of the New
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| - | The Mechanical Paradise - Episode 1 | + | *The Mechanical Paradise - Episode 1 |
| - | Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism. | + | **Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism. |
| - | See also: [[Machine Age]] - [[Exposition Universelle]] (1889) | + | See also: [[Machine Age]] - [[Exposition Universelle (1889)]] |
| The Powers that Be - Episode 2 | The Powers that Be - Episode 2 | ||
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The Shock of the New is a book and a television series by Robert Hughes.
In 1980 the BBC broadcast Hughes's television series on the development of modern art since the Impressionists. It was accompanied by a book of the same name. Its combination of insight, wit and accessibility are still widely praised.
In July 2004, the BBC re-aired this series as follows:
- The Mechanical Paradise - Episode 1
- Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism.
See also: Machine Age - Exposition Universelle (1889)
The Powers that Be - Episode 2 Hughes explores the interplay between art and politics, seeing how artists were affected by the development of mechanised warfare and ideologies like fascism and communism. See also: art and politics
The Landscape of Pleasure - Episode 3 The French artists who attempted to reconcile man with nature, from the determination of the impressionists to paint outside to Matisse's vibrant use of colour. See also: impressionism - landscape
Trouble in Utopia - Episode 4 How modern architects in the wake of the Bauhaus aspired to change societies with their designs, a move represented both by Le Corbusier and the plans for the city Brasilia. See also: utopia - architecture
The Threshold of Liberty - Episode 5 The art movement that gripped its exponents with the fervour of a religion: surrealism. Artists like Di Chirico, Ernst, Miró and Dalí; brought the subconscious to the fore and attempted to tap into innocent and irrationality. See also: Surrealism
The View From the Edge - Episode 6 Expressionism sprung out of the harsh, secular atmosphere of the 20th Century and evolved, through the strong colours and often sombre moods of artists like Munch, to the non-figurative work of Pollock and De Kooning. See also: Abstract Expressionism
Culture as Nature - Episode 7 Artists began to take man-made images as their inspiration, leading to the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein as well as Stuart Davis' collages inspired by jazz. See also: Pop Art
The Future That Was - Episode 8 The final episode in the series explores the decline of modernism and how various artists have reacted to the consequent commercialisation of their art. See also: postmodern art
Notes: Robert Hughes fails to mention the influence of photography and illustrated newspapers on Impressionism.
