The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New is a TV show on BBC4. The program has been available since 2023. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2023.
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The Shock of the New
Robert Hughes goes Pop when he examines the art that referred to the man-made world that fed off culture itself via works by Rauchenberg, Warhol and Lichtenstein.
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Robert Hughes slips down the decline of modernism and examines how artists have dealt with commercialisation. Artists include Bridget Reilly and David Hockney.
September 2023
A look at the artists who made visual art from the crags and vistas of their internal world - the Expressionists, including Van Gogh, De Kooning and Pollock.
Robert Hughes's classic series about art in the twentieth century. Hughes examines the surrealists and their attempts to make art without restrictions.
Robert Hughes's classic series about art in the twentieth century. This edition deals with the aspirations and reality of the art in which we live, architecture.
Robert Hughes examines art's relationship with the pleasures of nature, with reference to works by Seurat, Monet, Cezanne and Gauguin.
Series on the development of modern art from 1880 to the present, presented by Robert Hughes. How technology influenced art between 1880 and the end of WWI.
Robert Hughes examines the relationship between art and authority by looking at dadaism and the art of political movements such as fascism and Soviet communism.