The Shock of the New: View From the Edge part 2

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

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