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The Shock of the new [videorecording]. Episode 5, The threshold of liberty.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublication details: London : A BBC TV production in association with Time Life Films and RM Productions, 1980.Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (59 min.) : sd., col.with b&w sequences ; 1/2 inISBN:
  • ISBN001056
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.04 20
Production credits:
  • Script, Robert Hughes ; producer, Robin Lough ; series producer, Lorna Pegram.
Cast: Robert Hughes.Summary: Part 5 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 the desire for absolute freedom and the need to break away from social conformity in art is explored. This gave rise to surrealism which was the last genuinely revoloutionary art movement of the 20th century.
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Script, Robert Hughes ; producer, Robin Lough ; series producer, Lorna Pegram.

Robert Hughes.

Part 5 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 the desire for absolute freedom and the need to break away from social conformity in art is explored. This gave rise to surrealism which was the last genuinely revoloutionary art movement of the 20th century.

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