Nothing If Not Critical: Essays on Art and ArtistsKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 22 feb 2012 - 400 pagina's From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired writer on art. In this book: nearly a hundred of his finest essays on the subject. For the realism of Thomas Eakins to the Soviet satirists Komar and Melamid, from Watteau to Willem de Kooning to Susan Rothenberg, here is Hughes—astute, vivid and uninhibited—on dozens of famous and not-so-famous artists. He observes that Caravaggio was “one of the hinges of art history; there was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same”; he remarks that Julian Schnabel’s “work is to painting what Stallone’s is to acting”; he calls John Constable’s Wivenhoe Park “almost the last word on Eden-as-Property”; he notes how “distorted traces of [Jackson] Pollock lie like genes in art-world careers that, one might have thought, had nothing to do with his.” He knows how Norman Rockwell made a chicken stand still long enough to be painted, and what Degas said about success (some kinds are indistinguishable from panic). Phrasemaker par excellence, Hughes is at the same time an incisive and profound critic, not only of particular artists, but also of the social context in which art exists and is traded. His fresh perceptions of such figures as Andy Warhol and the French writer Jean Baudrillard are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions of the art market—its inflated prices and reputations, its damage to the public domain of culture. There is a superb essay on Bernard Berenson, and another on the strange, tangled case of the Mark Rothko estate. And as a finale, Hughes gives us “The SoHoiad,” the mock-epic satire that so amused and annoyed the art world in the mid-1980s. A meteor of a book that enlightens, startles, stimulates and entertains. |
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... art. This sense of imperial role (and the nervousness it induced in the provinces) would much later be summed up by Irving Sandler in the title of his fine book on Abstract Expressionism, The Triumph of American Painting. Between 1945 ...
... art. This sense of imperial role (and the nervousness it induced in the provinces) would much later be summed up by Irving Sandler in the title of his fine book on Abstract Expressionism, The Triumph of American Painting. Between 1945 ...
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Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. and Rauschenberg, followed by ... artist of extraordinary power. It would be foolish to claim that 1945–70 in New York ... American frontier, qualities that seem inseparable from a younger America ...
Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. and Rauschenberg, followed by ... artist of extraordinary power. It would be foolish to claim that 1945–70 in New York ... American frontier, qualities that seem inseparable from a younger America ...
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Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. history” of twentieth-century art with some Australian artists in it, Arthur ... American artists living out of easy reach of New York in the fifties and sixties. Thirty years ago, Abstract ...
Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. history” of twentieth-century art with some Australian artists in it, Arthur ... American artists living out of easy reach of New York in the fifties and sixties. Thirty years ago, Abstract ...
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Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. could have tested them, and we could not see the originals. Thus, although we did not know it, we were in the situation of many American artists outside New York in 1960—flat on our backs, waiting ...
Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. could have tested them, and we could not see the originals. Thus, although we did not know it, we were in the situation of many American artists outside New York in 1960—flat on our backs, waiting ...
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Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. throughout Europe and—not incidentally—in America in the mid-1960s. They resigned themselves to an imperial situation. Imperialism ... American art? II In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set.
Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. throughout Europe and—not incidentally—in America in the mid-1960s. They resigned themselves to an imperial situation. Imperialism ... American art? II In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds | |
Goya | |
David Smith Sculptures | |
David Smith Drawings | |
Lee Krasner | |
Milton Avery | |
Jackson Pollock | |
Arshile Gorky | |
Joseph Cornell | |
Edward Hopper | |
Zurbarán | |
Nicolas Poussin | |
Guido Reni | |
Inigo Jones | |
JeanSiméon Chardin | |
John Constable | |
Antoine Watteau | |
German Romanticism | |
Edgar Degas | |
Courbet in Brooklyn | |
John Singer Sargent | |
Augustus SaintGaudens | |
Winslow Homer | |
James Whistler | |
PreRaphaelites | |
Camille Pissarro | |
Thomas Eakins | |
ToulouseLautrec | |
Auguste Rodin | |
Van Gogh and Cloisonnism | |
Édouard Manet | |
Henri Rousseau | |
Vincent van Gogh Part 1 | |
Vincent van Gogh Part 2 | |
Paul Gauguin | |
René Magritte | |
Vasily Kandinsky | |
Giorgio de Chirico | |
Julio Gonzalez | |
Max Beckmann | |
Henri Matisse in Nice | |
Futurism | |
English Art in the Twentieth Century | |
Oskar Kokoschka | |
Giorgio Morandi | |
Late Picasso | |
Thomas Hart Benton | |
Deco and Fins | |
Morris Louis | |
Diego Rivera | |
Norman Rockwell | |
Mark Rothko in Babylon | |
Andy Warhol | |
Saul Steinberg | |
James Turrell | |
R B Kitaj | |
Roy Lichtenstein | |
Nam June Paik | |
Richard Diebenkorn | |
Komar and Melamid | |
Howard Hodgkin | |
Louise Bourgeois | |
Philip Pearlstein | |
Robert Motherwell | |
Sandro Chia | |
Malcolm Morley | |
Julian Schnabel | |
Requiem for a Featherweight | |
Willem de Kooning | |
Francis Bacon | |
Francesco Clemente | |
James Rosenquist | |
Alex Katz | |
Susan Rothenberg | |
Anselm Kiefer | |
Elizabeth Murray | |
David Hockney | |
Donald Sultan | |
Leon Kossoff | |
Eric Fischl | |
Sean Scully | |
Christopher Wilmarth | |
Bernard Berenson | |
From Bauhaus to Our House | |
Brideshead Redecorated | |
America | |
Art and Money | |
orThe Masque of Art | |
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR | |
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