Learning on ScreenShock of the New (8 Parts)
- Synopsis
- Series on modern art, relating it to life, social and scientific changes, politics and history, and to everyday experiences of the world.
1: Looks at the machine age of the late 19th century and shows the optimism, and ultimate disillusion, it generated.
2: Considers that the disillusionment following World War 1 resulted in art that was opposed to all systems in dadaism and German expressionism. Looks at the relation between art and authority in the modern movement. Includes interviews with Marcel Duchamp, Naum Gabo and Albert Speer.
3: 20th century art in celebration of the experience of pleasure and well-being, from the landscapes of the Impressionists to the erotic nudes of Picasso and the serene interiors of Matisse.
4: Looks at modernism’s desire to create an ideal society as exemplified by the Bauhaus and the city of Brasilia. Filmed in France, Germany, Brazil, New York and Chicago, the programme includes archival material on architects Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, and an interview with Philip Johnson.
5: Looks at surrealism and the irrational and ecstatic in modern art. Filmed on location in Paris, Barcelona, Turin, New York, London and Majorca, the programme also contains interviews with Salvator Dali, Man Ray and Max Ernst, and archive footage of Rene Magritte and Joan Miro.
6: Art that deals with the dark extremities of human emotion: panic, loneliness, fear and even self-disgust, exemplified by artists such as van Gogh, Munch, Bacon and Rothko, often described as Expressionists.
7: Explores pop art and how modern art was affected by other media - print, radio, advertising, television. Explains how artists adapted their styles to compete. Includes interviews with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldernberg and shows a special commercial designed by Richard Hamilton and acted by Don McIver and Lorraine Chase.
8: Looks at the consequences of the assimilation of modern art and looks to the future. Includes interviews with Michael Heizer, Joseph Beuys and Arnulf Rainer; also Stuart Brisley performs ‘art’ underwater, and Walter de Maria’s ‘most dangerous and expensive sculpture in the world’ is seen. - Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 60 min.
- Year of production
- 1980
- Availability
- Sale; 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £280.00 (+VAT +p&p) series
- Subjects
- Art
- Keywords
- art - modern art; art - pop art
Credits
- Writer
- Robert Hughes
- Cast
Robert Hughes
Sections
- Title
- Mechanical paradise, The
- Synopsis
- 1: Looks at the machine age of the late 19th century and shows the optimism, and ultimate disillusion, it generated.
- Title
- Powers that be, The
- Synopsis
- 2: Considers that the disillusionment following World War 1 resulted in art that was opposed to all systems in dadaism and German expressionism. Looks at the relation between art and authority in the modern movement. Includes interviews with Marcel Ducham
- Title
- Landscape of pleasure, The
- Synopsis
- 3: 20th century art in celebration of the experience of pleasure and well-being, from the landscapes of the Impressionists to the erotic nudes of Picasso and the serene interiors of Matisse.
- Title
- Trouble in utopia
- Synopsis
- 4: Looks at modernism's desire to create an ideal society as exemplified by the Bauhaus and the city of Brasilia. Filmed in France, Germany, Brazil, New York and Chicago, the programme includes archival material on architects Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusi
- Title
- Threshold of liberty, The
- Synopsis
- 5: Looks at surrealism and the irrational and ecstatic in modern art. Filmed on location in Paris, Barcelona, Turin, New York, London and Majorca, the programme also contains interviews with Salvator Dali, Man Ray and Max Ernst, and archive footage of Ren
- Title
- View from the edge, The
- Synopsis
- 6: Art that deals with the dark extremities of human emotion: panic, loneliness, fear and even self-disgust, exemplified by artists such as van Gogh, Munch, Bacon and Rothko, often described as Expressionists.
- Title
- Culture as nature
- Synopsis
- 7: Explores pop art and how modern art was affected by other media - print, radio, advertising, television. Explains how artists adapted their styles to compete. Includes interviews with Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldernberg
- Title
- Future that was, The
- Synopsis
- 8: Looks at the consequences of the assimilation of modern art and looks to the future. Includes interviews with Michael Heizer, Joseph Beuys and Arnulf Rainer; also Stuart Brisley performs 'art' underwater, and Walter de Maria's 'most dangerous and expen
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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