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  1. The Future That Was

    8/8Robert Hughes slips down the decline of modernism while watching art without substance.

  2. Culture as Nature

    7/8Examining the art that referred to the man-made world which fed off culture itself.

  3. The View from the Edge

    6/8A look at those who made visual art from the crags and vistas of their internal world.

  4. The Threshold of Liberty

    5/8Robert Hughes examines the surrealists' attempts to make art without restrictions.

  5. Trouble in Utopia

    4/8Robert Hughes examines the aspirations and reality of architecture.

  6. The Landscape of Pleasure

    3/8Robert Hughes examines art's relationship with the pleasures of nature.

  7. The Powers That Be

    2/8Robert Hughes examines the relationship between art and authority.

  8. Mechanical Paradise

    1/8How the development of technology influenced art between 1880 and the end of WWI.