Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsA generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse. This much-feted book from Robert Hughes, one of our greatest living art historians, makes a welcome appearance in paperback. A selection of his most important articles, it includes his accounts of the particular skills and vision of some 80 artists - from old masters such as Holbein, Caravaggio, van Dyck and Reynolds to contemporary painters such as Lichtenstein, Bacon, Kitaj and Hockney. Hughes looks too at some of the vexed questions confronting art today. Lawrence Gowing has said that Robert Hughes is 'illuminating and compelling on whatever subject he touches'; this book offers much evidence to support that plaudit. (Kirkus UK). |
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... a political artist alive who does not dream of having Courbet's breadth of public address — a yearning frustrated by the obscurity of late - modernist art discourse and neutralized by Courbet in Brooklyn / 97 Courbet in Brooklyn.
... a political artist alive who does not dream of having Courbet's breadth of public address — a yearning frustrated by the obscurity of late - modernist art discourse and neutralized by Courbet in Brooklyn / 97 Courbet in Brooklyn.
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... Courbet whole in nearly thirty years . Unlike the Courbet exhibition in Paris in 1977 , it leaves out several of the most ambitious paintings with which he planted the Realist argument in the culture of the Second Empire : Burial at ...
... Courbet whole in nearly thirty years . Unlike the Courbet exhibition in Paris in 1977 , it leaves out several of the most ambitious paintings with which he planted the Realist argument in the culture of the Second Empire : Burial at ...
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... Courbet's Stonebreakers , or with the frieze of worn faces and homespun black suits in Burial at Ornans . He painted , someone gibed , the way one waxed boots . He was seen not only as a dangerous socialist , but as a besmircher of the ...
... Courbet's Stonebreakers , or with the frieze of worn faces and homespun black suits in Burial at Ornans . He painted , someone gibed , the way one waxed boots . He was seen not only as a dangerous socialist , but as a besmircher of the ...
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