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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... Guido Reni 70 Inigo Jones 73 Jean - Siméon Chardin 75 John Constable 78 Antoine Watteau 81 Part Two : Nineteenth Century German Romanticism 89 Edgar Degas 92 Courbet in Brooklyn 97 Contents John Singer Sargent 100 Augustus Saint ...
... Guido Reni 70 Inigo Jones 73 Jean - Siméon Chardin 75 John Constable 78 Antoine Watteau 81 Part Two : Nineteenth Century German Romanticism 89 Edgar Degas 92 Courbet in Brooklyn 97 Contents John Singer Sargent 100 Augustus Saint ...
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... Guido Reni Anyone who thinks art reputations stick once they are made should think again - about Guido Reni ( 1575-1642 ) , whose show , the first glimpse of him in ages , is now at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth . Reni was the ...
... Guido Reni Anyone who thinks art reputations stick once they are made should think again - about Guido Reni ( 1575-1642 ) , whose show , the first glimpse of him in ages , is now at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth . Reni was the ...
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... Guido Reni : the last one , in his native Bologna , was in 1954. And to a great extent it succeeds . When the various phases of Reni's work are assembled , he comes across as a more diverse and interesting painter than one ever Guido Reni / ...
... Guido Reni : the last one , in his native Bologna , was in 1954. And to a great extent it succeeds . When the various phases of Reni's work are assembled , he comes across as a more diverse and interesting painter than one ever Guido Reni / ...
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of the City of Mahagonny | 3 |
Ancestors | 31 |
Nineteenth Century | 89 |
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