The Shock of the New: The Threshold of Liberty: Part 2

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Time-Life Films.

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: The Shock of the New: The Threshold of Liberty: Part 2 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 1800's to the present. In this episode the desire for absolute freedom and the need to break away from social conformity in art is explored. Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film


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