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The Shock of the New

Robert Hughes' history of Modern Art from Cubism to Pop and the Avant-Garde
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The Shock of the New: Volume 1: The Mechanical Paradise
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of the Industrial Revolution, modernity, Cubism, the Machine Age, and Futurism, as well as artists Paul Cezanne, Picasso, Georges Braque, Filippo Marinetti, Marcel Duchamps, and Francis Picabia.
SN-001 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 2: The Powers That Be
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Mechanized War, World War I, Futurism, Modernism, Cubism, Cubists, Post World War I, Dadaists, Dadaism, Communism, state artists, social engineers, and German Expressionism, as well as artists and engineers Albert Speer, Ernst, Schwitters, Hoch, Baader, Ed Kienholz.
SN-002 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 3: The Landscape of Pleasure
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Impressionism, Impressionists, and landscape painting, as well as artists Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Derain, and Matisse.
SN-003 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 4: Trouble in Utopia
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of modern architecture, Chicago style, city planning, modernist architects, and the Bauhaus school of design, as well as architects Scharoun, Finsterlin, Luckhardt, Taut, Sant' Elia, Chiattone, and Mies van der Rohe.
SN-004 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 5: The Threshold of Liberty
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Surrealism, Revolutionary Art, art nouveau architecture, dreams, Id, and the artists, Maxim Gorky, Andre Breton, Henri Rousseau, De Chirico, Ernst, Miró, Dali, Magritte, Man Ray, and Joseph Cornell.
SN-005 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 6: The View from the Edge
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Figurative Expressionism, the Modernist, abstract art, and Abstractionism, as well as artists Van Gogh, Gauguin, Edvard Munch, and his primal work The Scream, Oskar Kokoschka, Roger Bacon, Paul Clay, Kandinsky, and Jackson Pollack.
SN-006 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 7: Culture as Nature
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Pop Art, American Pop Art, Cubism, Dadaists, Dadaism, Surrealism and Surrealists, as well as artists Stuart Davis, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Oldenburg, and Richard Hamilton.
SN-007 $27.50/yr
The Shock of the New: Volume 8: The Future That Was
Robert Hughes presents the concepts of Modernism and modern art collectors, as well as public art performer Joseph Beuys.
SN-008 $27.50/yr