Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsCollins Harvill, 1990 - 429 pagina's A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse. This much-feted book from Robert Hughes, one of our greatest living art historians, makes a welcome appearance in paperback. A selection of his most important articles, it includes his accounts of the particular skills and vision of some 80 artists - from old masters such as Holbein, Caravaggio, van Dyck and Reynolds to contemporary painters such as Lichtenstein, Bacon, Kitaj and Hockney. Hughes looks too at some of the vexed questions confronting art today. Lawrence Gowing has said that Robert Hughes is 'illuminating and compelling on whatever subject he touches'; this book offers much evidence to support that plaudit. (Kirkus UK). |
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Pagina 166
... Picasso . Harlequin , Pierrot , 1930-31 , makes no attempt to conceal its borrowings from Picasso : the grille of lozenges quoting a harlequin's costume , the whimsical shield- mask of a face . Gradually these images were stripped and ...
... Picasso . Harlequin , Pierrot , 1930-31 , makes no attempt to conceal its borrowings from Picasso : the grille of lozenges quoting a harlequin's costume , the whimsical shield- mask of a face . Gradually these images were stripped and ...
Pagina 187
... Picasso made perhaps four hundred paintings in the last three years of his life . And yet it draws the profile as it had not been drawn before . Not even the most hard - bitten viewer can contemplate this oeuvre without a degree of awe ...
... Picasso made perhaps four hundred paintings in the last three years of his life . And yet it draws the profile as it had not been drawn before . Not even the most hard - bitten viewer can contemplate this oeuvre without a degree of awe ...
Pagina 188
... Picasso's Hesiodic arcadia , little whop- straw gods , satyrs , nymphs ; musketeers and majas , dwarfs and Velázquez aristocrats . Then there are his own inventions of years before , pulled in for a final bow - the women from Les ...
... Picasso's Hesiodic arcadia , little whop- straw gods , satyrs , nymphs ; musketeers and majas , dwarfs and Velázquez aristocrats . Then there are his own inventions of years before , pulled in for a final bow - the women from Les ...
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