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The Shock of the new [videorecording]. Episode 3, The landscape of pleasure.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: London : A BBC TV production in association with Time Life Films and RM Productions, 1979.Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 inISBN:
  • ISBN001054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04 20
Production credits:
  • Script, Robert Hughes ; producer, Lorna Pegram.
Cast: Robert Hughes.Summary: Part 3 of an 8-part series which presents a social history of the impact and development of the visual arts in the 20th century by art critic and writer Robert Hughes. In each episode, Hughes examines the forces which monitored the directions painting, architecture and photography took from the late 1800s to the present. In this episode Robert Hughes explores how the Mediterranean, seen by artists and the aristocracy as very much a vision of Eden, gave rise to the art of pleasure, in particular Fauvism and Impressionism. Rare archival footage of Picasso and Matisse at work is included.
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Script, Robert Hughes ; producer, Lorna Pegram.

Robert Hughes.

Part 3 of an 8-part series which presents a social history of the impact and development of the visual arts in the 20th century by art critic and writer Robert Hughes. In each episode, Hughes examines the forces which monitored the directions painting, architecture and photography took from the late 1800s to the present. In this episode Robert Hughes explores how the Mediterranean, seen by artists and the aristocracy as very much a vision of Eden, gave rise to the art of pleasure, in particular Fauvism and Impressionism. Rare archival footage of Picasso and Matisse at work is included.

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