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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... imagine . Inundated with commissions , eulo- gized by poets , fluent and tireless , he helped set the cultural standards of the Caroline age . Standing before Van Dyck's work , as a patron wrote 40 ANCESTORS رد Anthony Van Dyck.
... imagine . Inundated with commissions , eulo- gized by poets , fluent and tireless , he helped set the cultural standards of the Caroline age . Standing before Van Dyck's work , as a patron wrote 40 ANCESTORS رد Anthony Van Dyck.
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... imagine him working without the conviction that his way of life was immutable - that there would always be nurses to make beef tea , scullions to bargain for chickens , and governesses to scold the chil- dren ; that the kitchen skimmers ...
... imagine him working without the conviction that his way of life was immutable - that there would always be nurses to make beef tea , scullions to bargain for chickens , and governesses to scold the chil- dren ; that the kitchen skimmers ...
Pagina 142
... imagine what van Gogh would have made of all this . Neither the modern mass audience for art , nor the elevation of the artist as a secular saint , nor the undercurrent of faith in the expiatory powers of self - sacrificial genius ...
... imagine what van Gogh would have made of all this . Neither the modern mass audience for art , nor the elevation of the artist as a secular saint , nor the undercurrent of faith in the expiatory powers of self - sacrificial genius ...
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