The shock of the new /
This provocative series on modern art picks up at the threshold of the 20th century. Includes interviews with, among others, Matisse, Picasso, and Dali.
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ambrose Video Pub.,
[2001?]
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| Summary: | This provocative series on modern art picks up at the threshold of the 20th century. Includes interviews with, among others, Matisse, Picasso, and Dali. The mechanical paradise: Explores Western art during the period 1870-1914 and shows how the artists of this period reflected the fragmentation and mechanization of urban life. The powers that be: Examines the art of the post-World War I period, including Dada and German expressionism, and discusses how art reflected the intellectual and political mood of the period. The landscape of pleasure: The south of France and the Mediterranean become a generator of color-filled images of well-being that permeated the work of Monet, Cezanne and other Impressionists. Trouble in Utopia: The glass palaces of German architects give way to the functionalists. Concern for social programs, culminating in the town plans of le Corbusier, the speculations of Buckminster Fuller and the strange wasteland of Brasilia. The threshold of liberty: Surrealism was the last revolutionary art movement of the Twentieth Century. Dali, Mire, and Magritte were striving to liberate the unconscious mind through fantasy/reality. The view from the edge: Figurative Expressionism was ruined by the realities of the Nazi death camps whose horrors surpassed distortions of the human body an artist could imagine. Culture as nature: In the mid-20th century, symbols of modern culture reflecting the power of mass media, advertising, radio and television, became subjects for artists. Pop art exploded onto the scene. The future that was: We sit at the end of a cycle. The new age of Modernism that began with this century is now the establishment, as are its consequences. |
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| Item Description: | Originally aired as a television mini-series in 1980 on BBC2. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 4 videodiscs (approximately 416 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Writer, Robert Hughes. |