# The Shock of the New: View From the Edge

VHS

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

Nineteenth-century romanticism gave way to 20th-century expressionism and the angst-ridden works of Die Brucke, Munch, Soutine, and Francis Bacon. But with World War II, reality in the form of photography outstripped expressionism in depicting man's inhumanity to man. The only alternative for artists like Rothko and Pollock was abstract expressionism

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1979
- Runtime: 28 min
- By: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012; British Broadcasting Service. Television Service; Time-Life Television; Ambrose Video Publishing
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/theshockofthenewviewfromtheedgepart2_201504)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens 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/theshockofthenewviewfromtheedgepart2_201504?play=1)