The Shock of the New (Episodes 5 & 6)
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Art, Documentary Film
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Duration
104 min
Subject
Modernism (Art) Surrealism. Figurative expressionism. Art and society. Artists -- Interviews. Artists.
Abstract
Episode 5 (58 min)
The Threshold of liberty: Surrealism was the last revolutionary art movement of the Twentieth Century. Dali, Mire, and Magritte were striving to liberate the unconscious mind through fantasy/reality.
Artist: Dali, Mire, and Magritte
Episode 6 (58 min) The View from the edge: Figurative Expressionism was ruined by the realities of the Nazi death camps whose horrors surpassed distortions of the human body an artist could imagine.
The Threshold of liberty: Surrealism was the last revolutionary art movement of the Twentieth Century. Dali, Mire, and Magritte were striving to liberate the unconscious mind through fantasy/reality.
Artist: Dali, Mire, and Magritte
Episode 6 (58 min) The View from the edge: Figurative Expressionism was ruined by the realities of the Nazi death camps whose horrors surpassed distortions of the human body an artist could imagine.
Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Number of Copies
1
