TY - ADVS AU - Richardson,David AU - Hughes,Robert AU - Pengram,Lorna ED - British Broadcasting Corporation. ED - Time-life Films. ED - R.M. Productions. TI - The Shock of the new SN - ISBN001059 U1 - 709.04 20 PY - 1979/// CY - London PB - BBC TV Production in association with Time Life Films and RM Productions KW - Art as an investement KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History KW - Art Museums KW - Mass media and the arts KW - Painting, Modern KW - Architecture, Modern KW - Sculpture, Modern N1 - Script, Robert Hughes ; director, David Richardson ; producer, Lorna Pegram; Robert Hughes N2 - Part 8 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 discusses the future of modern art. Examines how modern art has gradually lost its sense of newness and possibility and how the avant garde has become a dying form. Explores the influences museums, investment and the media have had on the general public's response to modern art ER -