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    <body><![CDATA[At the Tate Gallery in Liverpool last Friday I achieved a rare treble - on display there was a monochrome black canvas by Reinhardt I think, a white canvas by some other goon and - yes - an Yves Klein &quot;International Klein Blue&quot; monochrome! I prostrated myself before these mighty works, gla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7274077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great text about the history of modern art, from the influence of the impressionists forward.  It is fun to read, and does a good job of correlating the history of a given time to the ideology of a movement in art.  If you think you don't like modern art, read this book!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book after a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  I left the museum confused and annoyed by Modern art.  I could not find anything to explain Modern art.  Nothing that wasn't complete unreadable, unwatchable or incomprehensible.  Then I picked up this book.  I read about 30 p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76248673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the best introduction to modern art i know of. down-to-earth, witty and opinionated writing that manages to survey the main currents of modernism without the dumbing-down that surveys often resort to.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was expensive to purchase as a college student. I thought about returning it during buyback but couldn't find the heart to do it. The art and layout of the book is fantastic! (As well as the text alongside of it)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hughes possesses all the essential traits of a brilliant art critic: he's not a snob, he's perceptive about the difference between shyte and wank, he's enthusiastic about playfulness and populism, and he's willing to admit he's wrong (in this book, it's Philip Guston). The fact that his career was c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5151179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;fischl's work...smells of unwashed dog, barbecue lighter fluid, and sperm&quot;...<br/><br/>...robert hughes at his best with colorfully descriptive prose. originally a bbc documentary, hughes tackles the rise and fall of modernism with absolute joy and admiration for some artists,  encourag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11512310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you can pair this with the DVD of the 1980s PBS show, do it.  You will soon be hearing Hughes' voice with every cranky insight.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book is excellent.  Obviously, there are limits to what one can learn given the extremely broad scope of the book--i.e., &quot;modern art,&quot; which, for Hughes, goes back as far as the late Impressionists--so there's more on grand themes and trends than there is on detailed analysis ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9977903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2Oth Century art made real, understandable, enjoyable, beautiful!<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Holy Grail for serious painters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The pop guide to the 20th century's most celebrated artists and movements. There is a lot to like about this book: the many full-color reproductions and the author's quite significant erudition on the subject without coming across as a snob. It doesn't cover any new territory and offers no significa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12864305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Robert Hughes does an excellent job at connecting several political movements, wars, and philosophical theories to several modern art movements. The book flows naturally through the major art movements of the the 20th century. Hughes ultimately attributes all modern art to the construction of the Ei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4096078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came late to this book - after reading Hughes &quot;Nothing of Not Critical&quot; really enjoyed his writing style and the clarity of his POV.  Couldn't read art criticism when this was first published.  Reading it now, after the artworks and artists have had time to perculate makes the reading an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16785465">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is largely responsible for my appreciation of Abstract Expressionism (though I'm still a skeptic on Pollack and de Kooning. Actually, I hate de Kooning--his work, i mean. not sure about him as a person; though if you judge by his work he hates me as well because I am female). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was my textbook for an art history course and I loved loved loved both the text and the course. This book is almost as exhausTING as it is exhausTIVE, but worth it if you're at all interested in &quot;modern art&quot;. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hughes is a great writer! He makes art history enjoyable and undestandable...I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in modern art movements and their origins.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good resource with pretty pictures.  I wonder, do you go to intellectual hell for calling <em>Guernica</em> &quot;pretty&quot;?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read parts of this and really enjoyed it. It's a book I'd like to own at some point.]]></body>
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