Nothing If Not Critical
Selected Essays on Art and Artists
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2002
Summary
A timeline of artistic endeavour from the formal resources of the past to the boom-and-bust media hype of a postmodern age.In these celebrated essays Robert Hughes explores the lives and works of more than 80 artists, from Hans Holbein to Andy Warhol and beyond, assessing their achievements (or lack of them) and how they altered the history of art for better or for worse. Castigating the excesses of the 1980s New York art scene, with its manufactured celebrity and inflated prices, he argues f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860468599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860468594 |
| Author: | Robert Hughes |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association’s F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America. Robert Hughes died in August 2012.
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