# The Shock of the New: The Mechanical Paradise.

Title from data sheet

Also issued as videorecording

Writer and narrator, Robert Hughes

Explores Western art during the period 1870-1914 and shows how the artists of this period reflected the fragmentation and mechanization of urban life

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1980
- Runtime: 26 min
- By: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service; Time-Life Television
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/theshockofthenewthemechanicalparadisepart1_201505)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/theshockofthenewthemechanicalparadisepart1_201505?play=1)