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Sep 1980 - Nov 1980
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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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Best Episodes of The Shock of the New
The Threshold of Liberty
S1 Ep5
10.0
19th Oct 1980
Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
Worst Episodes of The Shock of the New
The Mechanical Paradise
S1 Ep1
5.5
21st Sep 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.
The Shock of the New Episode Guide
The Mechanical Paradise
S1 Ep1
5.5
21st Sep 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.
The Powers That Be
S1 Ep2
28th Sep 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.
The Landscape of Pleasure
S1 Ep3
10.0
5th Oct 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.
Trouble in Utopia
S1 Ep4
12th Oct 1980
The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.
The Threshold of Liberty
S1 Ep5
10.0
19th Oct 1980
Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
The View from the Edge
S1 Ep6
26th Oct 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.
Culture as Nature
S1 Ep7
2nd Nov 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.
The Future That Was
S1 Ep8
7.0
9th Nov 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.
The best rated episodes of The Shock of the New are:
- The Threshold of Liberty S1E5 rated 10.0
The lowest rated episodes of The Shock of the New are:
- The Mechanical Paradise S1E1 rated 5.5
The first episode of The Shock of the New aired on September 21, 1980.
The last episode of The Shock of the New aired on November 09, 1980.
There are 8 episodes of The Shock of the New.
There is one season of The Shock of the New.
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The Shock of the New has ended.
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