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 136
... flat , thin paint and firmed up with swift daubs of darker tone in the folds , contrasts with the thick , creamy white directional brush- strokes that model the curve of a spat . The ceaseless , intelligent play of flat and round ...
... flat , thin paint and firmed up with swift daubs of darker tone in the folds , contrasts with the thick , creamy white directional brush- strokes that model the curve of a spat . The ceaseless , intelligent play of flat and round ...
Page 172
... flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity , and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze - and all the rest . Scanning Matisse's rooms is like reading a reticent autobiography , written before the days when ...
... flat black cover of a notebook on the vanity , and the way a scrim curtain hung and stirred in the faint breeze - and all the rest . Scanning Matisse's rooms is like reading a reticent autobiography , written before the days when ...
Page 325
... flat paintings of figures and faces have qualities of abstract design ; but there is no serious figurative artist of whose work this cannot be said , so it is hard to see why Katz should be credited with this supposed reconcilia- tion ...
... flat paintings of figures and faces have qualities of abstract design ; but there is no serious figurative artist of whose work this cannot be said , so it is hard to see why Katz should be credited with this supposed reconcilia- tion ...
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