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The Shock of the new [videorecording]. Episode 1., The mechanical paradise.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: London : BBC TV Production in association with Time Life Films and RM Productions, 1979.Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 inISBN:
  • ISBN001052
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04 20
Production credits:
  • Producer, Lorna Pegram ; directors, Lorna Pegram, David Richardson, Robin Lough ; script, Robert Hughes.
Presenter: Robert Hughes.Summary: a Part 1 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 looks at the machine age of the late 19th century, the optimism with which people in general reacted to it and how it gave rise to the cubist and futurist painters of Europe.
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Producer, Lorna Pegram ; directors, Lorna Pegram, David Richardson, Robin Lough ; script, Robert Hughes.

Presenter: Robert Hughes.

a Part 1 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 looks at the machine age of the late 19th century, the optimism with which people in general reacted to it and how it gave rise to the cubist and futurist painters of Europe.

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