The Shock of the New — Season 1, Episode 2: The Powers That Be
Documentary • 60 min • 1 season, 8 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
After 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.
About The Shock of the New
The renowned definitive eight part series on the rise and fall of the modern art movement presented by Australian art critic Robert Hughes.