Robert Hughes
Author profile
born
July 28, 1938
in Sydney, Australia
gender
male
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic Of Australia's Founding
— published 1986 — 18 editions |
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The Shock of the New
— published 1981 — 9 editions |
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Goya
— published 2003 — 8 editions |
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
— 6 editions |
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Barcelona
— published 1992 — 11 editions |
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Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America
— published 1993 — 6 editions |
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
— 6 editions |
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Lucian Freud Paintings
by Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud — 4 editions |
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Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History
— published 2011 — 6 editions |
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Things I Didn't Know
— published 2006 — 8 editions |
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“The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.”
― Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
― Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
“What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.”
― Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
― Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
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