# The Shock of the New: Threshold of Liberty, Part 1

VHS

Narrated and written by art critic Robert Hughes. Produced by the BBC and Time-Life Television

Discusses surrealism, the last revolutionary art movement of the 20th century. Visits "monuments to the irrational"--The little-known Ideal Temple, built in rural France over a span of forty years by a local postman, and the Watts Tower. Examines the work of Rousseau, Ernst, Miro, Dali, Magritte, Cornell, and Dubuffet, and shows how they influenced even the New York School of Gorky, Motherwell, and Rothko

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1980
- Runtime: 28 min
- By: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012; British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service; Time-Life Television; Ambrose Video Publishing
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/theshockofthenewthresholdoflibertypartone_201504)
- 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)

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