Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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... Art ) arose about art and media . Nature is dead , culture is all ... history as a mere box of samples - these were the signs of a culture given ... Art requires the long look . It is a physical object , with its own scale and density as ...
... Art ) arose about art and media . Nature is dead , culture is all ... history as a mere box of samples - these were the signs of a culture given ... Art requires the long look . It is a physical object , with its own scale and density as ...
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Selected Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. at least he has been in every art history book , and in the mind of many artists , for the past thirty years . His career started late - he did not even have a one - man show until he was ...
Selected Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. at least he has been in every art history book , and in the mind of many artists , for the past thirty years . His career started late - he did not even have a one - man show until he was ...
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... Art World , the cultural equivalent to Disney World , full of rides and haunted houses and historical fictions ; and they are tourists in it . Because they have been stuffed with propaganda about the increasingly vital role , the quiet ...
... Art World , the cultural equivalent to Disney World , full of rides and haunted houses and historical fictions ; and they are tourists in it . Because they have been stuffed with propaganda about the increasingly vital role , the quiet ...
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