The Shock Of The New is still one of the best books on contemporary art history ever written and should be a standard issue inteaching art history.It was rhe first book on art I ever bought and it has stood the test of time.These programmes captured it's essense brilliantly
@43:00 Robert utters the line "...and so, the end of history...." The question that has always followed this epithet, whenever it has raised itself to public cognition, is "whose history?" And in my 70 years of lifelong learning, understanding, observation, experience, re-examination 24/7 365 For at least one and a half millennia the glorified couplet, now termed "Western Civilization" has always written histories of non Western places whilst dominating and socially engineering them from a "Western value" starting point, thereby dominating information and its flaws of intent until old Napoleon Bonaparte became the spanner in the 'Oriental'....and still to this era, this decade, this ever shifting now, east is east and west is ....etc, etc Love always
This was an important documentary in relation to my 98 dissertation on totalitarian architecture. I had the book that accompanied the series too. If anyone is interested, Jonathan Meades documentaries on the subject are on par with this.
I really like this program from way back. And it's great that somebody's uploaded them to TH-cam. But, they could've done a much better job with the captioning. Or is that a problem with TH-cam, or something/somebody other than those connected with the actual program?
WW I was definitely a dividing line between eras, but it seems like the lessons weren't learned - in Ukraine it's still going on today. Even the spectre of nuclear holocaust doesn't seem to affect some of our leaders....
The federal building in San Francisco unfortunately looks exactly like those buildings at 51:0...just a big black cube with a small courtyard (a federal court yard, pun distended. ;^[}. ) Not very attractive, and yes, a statement of implacable power.... I never thought about it consciously before....
Currently watching this series for the first time & I loved that bit about US institutional buildings' similarities to totalitarian aesthetics, very eye-opening.
This series and John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" ought to be a must in the school curriculum.
Thanks for uploading. 🙏🙌
The Shock Of The New is still one of the best books on contemporary art history ever written and should be a standard issue inteaching art history.It was rhe first book on art I ever bought and it has stood the test of time.These programmes captured it's essense brilliantly
I never went to art school however watching these has been edifying . .
Thanks for this -- appropriate for Armistice Day -- WW I -- " our grandfathers tasted the first terrors of the 20th century "
We learnt about the constructivists at art school but a lot of it went over my head, this is much more concise.
Loved this show on PBS as a kid
Intro music is fuckin trippy
Thank you so much for uploading these!
Does anyone else think the intro music is dope?
+Sasa Milic rate it highly ae
aye I do
Peter Howell, who was doing Doctor Who scores around the same time.
nope.
well ive listened to it soo many times now. but i really dig the music in this episode!
Fantastic - thank you!
I wish this were required in high school.
Thank you !
Great series .
43:02 Nice!
@43:00 Robert utters the line "...and so, the end of history...." The question that has always followed this epithet, whenever it has raised itself to public cognition, is "whose history?"
And in my 70 years of lifelong learning, understanding, observation, experience, re-examination 24/7 365
For at least one and a half millennia the glorified couplet, now termed "Western Civilization" has always written histories of non Western places whilst dominating and socially engineering them from a "Western value" starting point, thereby dominating information and its flaws of intent until old Napoleon Bonaparte became the spanner in the 'Oriental'....and still to this era, this decade, this ever shifting now, east is east and west is ....etc, etc
Love always
This was an important documentary in relation to my 98 dissertation on totalitarian architecture. I had the book that accompanied the series too. If anyone is interested, Jonathan Meades documentaries on the subject are on par with this.
Indeed. Meades is wonderful.
16:50 Favorite part
NO NO NO!
I really like this program from way back. And it's great that somebody's uploaded them to TH-cam. But, they could've done a much better job with the captioning. Or is that a problem with TH-cam, or something/somebody other than those connected with the actual program?
Too bad there are no more cafes.
Please make this content available to watch on mobile phone devices. I really need it for school and I'm unable to play it :(
It is- at least outside of the US…
WW I was definitely a dividing line between eras, but it seems like the lessons weren't learned - in Ukraine it's still going on today. Even the spectre of nuclear holocaust doesn't seem to affect some of our leaders....
55:20 a (IMO) very interesting version of Three Penny Opera starts - does anyone know who it's by?
Sounds like Mack The Knife to me
it's the matrosen tango (kurt weill)
lyricstranslate.com/en/singer-lotte-lenya-composer-kurt-weill-matrosen-tango-lyrics.html
Funny , he didnt mention Malevich , who was 30 years ahead of the Cubists in Russia ( "over there" )
Oli Faelaen Perhaps via El Lissitzky after 34 mins.
17:18 Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht.
The federal building in San Francisco unfortunately looks exactly like those buildings at 51:0...just a big black cube with a small courtyard (a federal court yard, pun distended. ;^[}. )
Not very attractive, and yes, a statement of implacable power....
I never thought about it consciously before....
Currently watching this series for the first time & I loved that bit about US institutional buildings' similarities to totalitarian aesthetics, very eye-opening.