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The Shock of the New is a 1980 documentary television series written and presented by Robert Hughes produced by the BBC in association with Time-Life Films and produced by Lorna Pegram. It was broadcast by the BBC in 1980 in the United Kingdom and by PBS in 1981 in the United States. It addressed the development of modern art since the Impressionists and was accompanied by a book of the same name; its combination of insight, wit and accessibility are still widely praised. In 2004 Hughes created a one-hour update to The Shock of the New titled The NEW Shock of the New.
Original Release
09/21/1980
US Release
10/24/1982
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Hughes | Self - Presenter |
Tony Church | Self - Readings |
Martin Jarvis | Self - Readings |
Judi Dench | Self - Readings |
Nick Chilvers | Self - Readings |
Lorraine Chase | Actress in Commercial |
Donald MacIver | Actor in Commercial |
Andy Warhol | Self |
Brian Deacon | Actor |
Salvador Dalí | Self |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | The Mechanical Paradise | Sunday, 21 September 1980 |
2 | The Powers That Be | Sunday, 28 September 1980 |
3 | The Landscape of Pleasure | Sunday, 05 October 1980 |
4 | Trouble in Utopia | Sunday, 12 October 1980 |
5 | The Threshold of Liberty | Sunday, 19 October 1980 |
6 | The View from the Edge | Sunday, 26 October 1980 |
7 | Culture as Nature | Sunday, 02 November 1980 |
8 | The Future That Was | Sunday, 09 November 1980 |
Directors
David Richardson, Robin Lough, Lorna Pegram
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Robert Hughes | Self - Presenter |
Tony Church | Self - Readings |
Martin Jarvis | Self - Readings |
Judi Dench | Self - Readings |
Nick Chilvers | Self - Readings |
Lorraine Chase | Actress in Commercial |
Donald MacIver | Actor in Commercial |
Andy Warhol | Self |
Brian Deacon | Actor |
Salvador Dalí | Self |
Imogen Bickford-Smith | Actress |
Albert Speer | Self |
Gillian Duxbury | Actress |
Laraine Humphrys | Actress |
Joan Miró | Self |
Roy Lichtenstein | Self |
Joseph Beuys | Self |
Philip Johnson | Self |
Robert Rauschenberg | Self |
Walter De Maria | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Lorna Pegram | Producer |
Robin Lough | Producer |
David Cheshire | Producer |