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Things I Didn't Know

Author: Robert Hughes  

What Robert Hughes did for the history of Australia in The Fatal Shore, he now does for his own life.

Gives us an account of the author's early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, the author uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion-writing and life itself.

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What Robert Hughes did for the history of Australia in The Fatal Shore, he now does for his own life.

Gives us an account of the author's early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, the author uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion-writing and life itself.

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Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States.

Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, Hughes uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion, writing and life itself.

Piercing, razor-sharp, and above all, fearless, this is by far Hughes's most personal writing to date.

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Critic Reviews

Entertaining -- Geoff Dyer Mail on Sunday
This is, as you'd expect, a hugely entertaining book -- Martin Gayford Sunday Telegraph
Edgy and engrossing memoir -- Waldemar Januszczak Sunday Times
Hughes...deftly intertwines personal and cultural history in this fiercely erudite memoir...it offers a fascinating examination of artistic patrimony and the formation of a critic New Yorker
Bracingly candid... There isn't a phrase that doesn't reward immediate rereading New Statesman

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About the Author

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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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage
Published
27th September 2007
Pages
416
ISBN
9780099501435

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