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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... architecture at the Polytechnic . " It was clear to me that I could never become an architect , because of the horror of dealing with people that architecture involves . I knew it from the beginning , but I went on with it . One learned ...
... architecture at the Polytechnic . " It was clear to me that I could never become an architect , because of the horror of dealing with people that architecture involves . I knew it from the beginning , but I went on with it . One learned ...
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... architecture , like the vapors of her burning into the sky . So with Kiefer's tragic image of Shulamite , 1983 : a Piranesian perspective of a squat , fire- blackened crypt , the paint laid inches thick in an effort to convey the ...
... architecture , like the vapors of her burning into the sky . So with Kiefer's tragic image of Shulamite , 1983 : a Piranesian perspective of a squat , fire- blackened crypt , the paint laid inches thick in an effort to convey the ...
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... architecture , epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright . But in the thirties its heritage was traded off ... architecture has no chance . Within the academic taste centers , Wolfe says , " there was no way for an architect to ...
... architecture , epitomized by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright . But in the thirties its heritage was traded off ... architecture has no chance . Within the academic taste centers , Wolfe says , " there was no way for an architect to ...
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