Tag Archives: The Shock of the New
Shock Now
Following John Berger’s January death there’s been a resurgence of interest in his 1972 BBC television series Ways of Seeing. The series addresses the various modes of representation that Berger observed in visual art along with an exploration of what I would call the psychology of observation. It’s deep, interesting stuff, and even rather revolutionary [...]
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Tagged balloon dog, bbc, Jeff Koons, Robert Hughes, The New Shock of the New, The Shock of the New
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Robert Hughes: The Death of a Critic
As we talked about on this week’s episode of Coincidence Control Network, Robert Hughes has slipped this mortal coil for that great rant in the sky. A consummate art critic, Hughes was as accessible as he was incisive — rather like the Carl Sagan of the cultural set, complete with his own blockbuster public television [...]
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Tagged Impressionism, modern art, Robert Hughes, Surrealism, The Shock of the New, Warhol
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