8. The Future That Was
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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The Shock of the New is a documentary TV series that premiered on September 21, 1980. It has 1 season and 8 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 8 "The Future That Was", aired on November 9, 1980.
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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8 episodes · 1 season
1980 · 8 episodes · Last episode: 46 years ago
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.
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.
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.
Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.
Throughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.
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.
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.
Created by Robert Hughes
The Shock of the New has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on November 9, 1980.
The most recent episode of The Shock of the New, Season 1 Episode 8 "The Future That Was", aired on November 9, 1980.
The Shock of the New has 1 season with 8 episodes in total.
The Shock of the New first aired on September 21, 1980.
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