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Directed by
  
David Lewis Richardson

Narrated by
  
Robert Hughes

Number of episodes
  
8

8.5/10
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Release date
  
1980

Number of seasons
  
1

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The Shock of the New is a 1980 documentary television series written and presented by Robert Hughes produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Films and produced by Lorna Pegram. It was broadcast by the BBC in 1980 in the United Kingdom and by PBS in 1981 in the United States. It addressed the development of modern art since the Impressionists and was accompanied by a book of the same name; its combination of insight, wit and accessibility are still widely praised. In 2004 Hughes created a one-hour update to The Shock of the New titled The NEW Shock of the New.

Contents

Series outline

The series consisted of 8 episodes each one hour long (58 min approx). It was re-broadcast on PBS in the United States. In the three cases, where PBS changed the titles, they are given in square brackets below.

  1. Mechanical Paradise - How the development of technology influenced art between 1880 and end of World War I. Cubism and Futurism
  2. Cezanne, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger, Delaunay, Marinetti, Boccioni, Balla, Severini, Picabia, Duchamp
  3. The Powers That Be [Shapes of Dissent] - Examining the relationship between modern art and authority. Dada, Constructivism, Futurism, Architecture of Power
  4. World War I and industrialised death, Exile and intellectuals as a class, Lenin, Tzara, Janco, Arp, Ball, Duchamp, Kirchner, Ernst, Höch, Dix, de Chirico, Hausmann, Grosz, Gabo, Tatlin, Moholy-Nagy, Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Marinetti, Prampolini, Speer, Piacentini, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Albany Mall, Picasso's Guernica, Tinguely
  5. The Landscape of Pleasure - Examining art's relationship with the pleasures of nature, and visions of paradise 1870's to 1950's. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism
  6. Fête champêtre, Titian, Giorgione, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Gainsborough, Bourgeoisie, Seurat, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, the vivid colours of the South, Paul Gauguin, Andre Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Braque, Picasso, late Matisse
  7. Trouble in Utopia - Examining the aspirations and reality of modern architecture. International Style, Art Noveau, Futurist architecture, Urban planning
  8. Johnson, Boullée, Garnier, Chiattone, Sant'Elia, Melnikov, Rodchenko, Leonidov, Sullivan, Labrouste, Berg, Mies, Le Corbusier, Chandigarh, Werkbund exhibition 1927, Bauhaus, Gropius, Behrends, De Stijl, Rietveld, van Duesberg, Mondrian, La Defense, Pruitt–Igoe, Costa, Niemeyer, Brasilia
  9. The Threshold of Liberty - Examining the surrealists' attempts to make art without restrictions.
  10. May 1968, Breton, Ernst, de Chirico, Böcklin, Ducasse, Child Art, Madness, Rousseau, Cheval, Miro, Gaudi, Dali, flea market, Jean, Brauner, Paalen, Oppenheim, Man Ray, Margritte, de Sade, Catholicism and sexual taboo, Bellmer, Cornell, Pollock, Rothko, Gorky, Hoffmann, 1945 liberation, Christo, Burden, Hippies and self-expression, Vietnam War, Cult of Youth
  11. The View from the Edge [Sublime and Anxious Eye] - A look at those who made visual art from the crags and vistas of their internal world. Expressionism
  12. van Gogh, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Kirchner, Kokoschka, Soutine, Bacon, de Kooning, photographical evidence of the Holocaust, Marc, Klee, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Rothko, Pollock, Motherwell
  13. Culture as Nature - Examining the art that referred to the man-made world which fed off culture itself. Pop Art and Celebrity
  14. O'Keeffe, Davis, Rauschenberg, Schwitters, Johns, Hamilton, the influence of television, Warhol, Liechtenstein, Rosenquist, Katz, Las Vegas as a single "lousy" artwork, Oldenburg, McLuhan and quantity over quality
  15. The Future That Was [End of Modernity] - The commercialisation of Modern Art, the decline of modernism, and art without substance. Land art, perfomance art, and body art
  16. Heizer, MoMA and rich patrons, SoHo and urban renewal, Pompidou Centre and the changing uses of art, da Panicale, art as public discourse, the Salon system, the avantgarde and the bourgeoisie, Courbet, Andre, Judd, public and private, Segal, Kienholz, Frankenthaler, Louis, Noland, Stella, Riley, fashion, the art market, Brisley, Samaras, Rainer, Hockney, Beuys, de Maria

2004 update

  • The NEW Shock of the New (2004) - How the art world has changed, 25 years later.
  • Eiffel tower, World Trade Center, 9/11, Turner, Goya, David, Picasso's Guernica as the last truly political painting, Whitney Biennial, Warhol, fashion as the primary model of art, Koons, Duchamp, Michelangelo, Masaccio, exploding prices of the art market, Rego, Kiefer, information overload, Hockney, the skill of drawing, art as the opposite of mass media, Freud, Gilbert and George, post-modernism, slowness of painting, Mondrian, Rothko, Kelly, Scully, beauty, Eliasson
  • Book

    The book of the series was published in 1980 by the BBC under the title The Shock of the New: Art and the century of change. It was republished in 1991 by Thames and Hudson.

    Video releases

    The televised edition of The Shock of the New is posted on the internet and is published as a set of DVDs.

    References

    The Shock of the New Wikipedia