The Shock of the New
- Title ID 47-SN
- History, World History, Fine Arts, Art History
- 8 Programs
- 9 Supplemental Files
- 10th Grade through Post Secondary
- Published by The BBC
Included Programs
Volume 1: The Mechanical ParadiseRunning time is 58 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of the Industrial Revolution, modernity, Cubism, the Machine Age, and Futurism, as well as artists Paul Cezanne, Picasso, Georges Braque, Filippo Marinetti, Marcel Duchamps, and Francis Picabia.
Volume 2: The Powers That BeRunning time is 59 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Mechanized War, World War I, Futurism, Modernism, Cubism, Cubists, Post World War I, Dadaists, Dadaism, Communism, state artists, social engineers, and German Expressionism, as well as artists and engineers Albert Speer, Ernst, Schwitters, Hoch, Baader, Ed Kienholz.
Volume 3: The Landscape of PleasureRunning time is 58 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Impressionism, Impressionists, and landscape painting, as well as artists Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Derain, and Matisse.
Volume 4: Trouble in UtopiaRunning time is 60 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of modern architecture, Chicago style, city planning, modernist architects, and the Bauhaus school of design, as well as architects Scharoun, Finsterlin, Luckhardt, Taut, Sant' Elia, Chiattone, and Mies van der Rohe.
Chapter List
- Brasilia
Volume 5: The Threshold of LibertyRunning time is 58 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Surrealism, Revolutionary Art, art nouveau architecture, dreams, Id, and the artists, Maxim Gorky, Andre Breton, Henri Rousseau, De Chirico, Ernst, Miró, Dali, Magritte, Man Ray, and Joseph Cornell.
Chapter List
- Brasilia
Volume 6: The View from the EdgeRunning time is 59 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Figurative Expressionism, the Modernist, abstract art, and Abstractionism, as well as artists Van Gogh, Gauguin, Edvard Munch, and his primal work The Scream, Oskar Kokoschka, Roger Bacon, Paul Clay, Kandinsky, and Jackson Pollack.
Chapter List
- Brasilia
Volume 7: Culture as NatureRunning time is 60 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Pop Art, American Pop Art, Cubism, Dadaists, Dadaism, Surrealism and Surrealists, as well as artists Stuart Davis, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Oldenburg, and Richard Hamilton.
Chapter List
- Brasilia
Volume 8: The Future That WasRunning time is 59 minutes
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Modernism and modern art collectors, as well as public art performer Joseph Beuys.
Chapter List
- Brasilia
Supplemental Files
- MARC Records for SN
- MARC records for the series The Shock of the New
- Transcription for Volume 1: The Mechanical Paradise
- Transcription for Volume 2: The Powers That Be
- Transcription for Volume 3: The Landscape of Pleasure
- Transcription for Volume 4: Trouble in Utopia
- Transcription for Volume 5: The Threshold of Liberty
- Transcription for Volume 6: The View from the Edge
- Transcription for Volume 7: Culture as Nature
- Transcription for Volume 8: The Future That Was
Reviews
Hughes has proven himself to be a wonderful teacher -- sharp, individualistic and clear. Agree or disagree, you will not be bored.