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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Page 133
... Gogh , Gauguin and the various painters who were , at one moment or another during the late 1880s , linked to their work ( among them , Maurice Denis , Louis Anquetin , Émile Ber- nard , Paul Sérusier and Toulouse - Lautrec ) was a ...
... Gogh , Gauguin and the various painters who were , at one moment or another during the late 1880s , linked to their work ( among them , Maurice Denis , Louis Anquetin , Émile Ber- nard , Paul Sérusier and Toulouse - Lautrec ) was a ...
Page 144
... Gogh's previous life . Seeing his desire for “ radi- cal " color confirmed in the actual landscape gave him ... Gogh . The notion that his paintings were " mad " is the most idiotic of all impediments to understanding them . It was van ...
... Gogh's previous life . Seeing his desire for “ radi- cal " color confirmed in the actual landscape gave him ... Gogh . The notion that his paintings were " mad " is the most idiotic of all impediments to understanding them . It was van ...
Page 145
... Gogh rendering them ( “ absolutely clear ... a frenzy of impastos of the faintest yellow and lilac on the original white mass " ) . Even his symbolism leaves ... Gogh exhibition in 1984 tracked the artist's Vincent van Gogh , Part 2 / 145.
... Gogh rendering them ( “ absolutely clear ... a frenzy of impastos of the faintest yellow and lilac on the original white mass " ) . Even his symbolism leaves ... Gogh exhibition in 1984 tracked the artist's Vincent van Gogh , Part 2 / 145.
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