Episodes
The Shock of the New: The Threshold of Liberty (BBC Four Sunday 24 September 2023)
The Shock of the New: The Threshold of Liberty airs Sunday 24 September 2023 on BBC Four.
What is this episode about
Robert Hughes’s seminal series on 20th-century art continues with a consideration of modernism and the avant-garde. As Hughes investigates the surrealists and their attempts to create art without boundaries, he becomes naive and irrational. Artists featured include: Ernst, Miro, Dali, and Di Chirico.
Originally broadcast Sunday 19 October 1980.
Episode 5 of 8
When can we see the episode
The Shock of the New: The Threshold of Liberty airs Sunday 24 September 2023 at 11:50pm on BBC Four
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