Season 1
8 episodes · Sep 21, 1980
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- S1E1
The Mechanical Paradise
Sep 21, 198060mThe irruption of the machine as a catalyst for the change in the forms and visions of artists in the early twentieth century. Cubism and Futurism as the movement of modern world and embodied in a canvas.
- S1E2
The Powers That Be
Sep 28, 198060mAfter the WW1 art is not indifferent to the change that the catastrophe had been. A provocative and ironic art, Dadaism was continued by militant leftist artists in Germany. In Russia, the communist revolution attracted modern artists to the fight, believing that they would change society to a fairer world, but they soon saw their utopia failed.
- S1E3
The Landscape of Pleasure
Oct 5, 1980Throughout the work of the Impressionists, Matisse or Picasso, the principle of pleasure and harmony are present in the art of the twentieth century.
- S1E4
Trouble in Utopia
Oct 12, 1980The architectural utopia of modernity and its aspirations for change and social improvement and its failure.
- S1E5
The Threshold of Liberty
Oct 19, 1980Surrealist painters sought extreme freedom through art, exploring the irrational world as well as the world of dreams.
- S1E6
The View from the Edge
Oct 26, 1980The interior of the mind, the obsessions and the forces that dominate life, form the work of modern artists from van Gogh and Munch, to the American abstract expressionists.
- S1E7
Culture as Nature
Nov 2, 1980In the mid-twentieth century the symbols of modern culture reflect the power of the media. Advertising, radio and television became the subject of artists. Pop art broke into the scene.
- S1E8
The Future That Was
Nov 9, 1980The end of modernity makes Robert Hughes raise the trajectory of art and its surroundings during the twentieth century and doubts about its future and achievements.