Contributor
Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012.
Imprint:[New York] : Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc, c[2001?]
Description4 videodiscs ( 416 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note:Documentary
Note:Videodisc release of television series
Note:Disc 1.The mechanical paradise ; The powers that be -- Disc 2.The landscape of pleasure ; Trouble in Utopia -- Disc 3.Threshold of liberty ; The view from the edge -- Disc 4. Culture as nature ; The future that was.
Note:Focuses on moderism is art as a reflection of changing social history an the 20th century. Includes interviews with, among others, Matisse, Picasso, and Dali.
Note:The Mechanical Paradise looks at the period 1870-1914 as one of the hinge points in Western culture. Its embelm, the Eiffel Tower, symbolized the reign of the engineer, the inventor.
Note:The Powers That Be looks at Dada and expressionism set against the collapse of Germany after World War I, The avant-garde's energies were about to be used in service of real political revolutions.
Note:The Landscape of Pleasure discusses how the South of France and the Mediterranean became a generator of color-filled images of well-being that permeated the work of Monet, Cezanne and other impressionists.
Note:Trouble in Utopia looks at the glass palaces of German architects that gave 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.
Note:The Threshold of Liberty looks at surrealism, the last revolutionary art movement of the Twentieth Century. Dali, Mire, and Magritte were striving to liberate the unconscious mind through fantasy/reality.
Note:The View from the Edge looks at figurative expressionism. Ruined by the realities of the Nazi death camps whose horrors surpassed distortions of the human body as artist could imagine.
Note:Culture as Nature looks at art 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.
Note:The Future That Was ends the cycle. The new age of Modernism that began with this century is now the establishment, as are its consequences.
System Details NotesDVD
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