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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... 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.
... 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.
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... Kooning, Rothko, Newman, David Smith, Gorky, Guston, Krasner and Motherwell. Then there were the slightly younger painters whom Clement Greenberg and his school had nominated as the continuers of art history, the ones on whom the future ...
... Kooning, Rothko, Newman, David Smith, Gorky, Guston, Krasner and Motherwell. Then there were the slightly younger painters whom Clement Greenberg and his school had nominated as the continuers of art history, the ones on whom the future ...
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... Harold Rosenberg or Thomas Hess made for figures such as Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning. They were grand enough to stifle aesthetic dissent. Only contact with the originals could have tested them, and we could not see the.
... Harold Rosenberg or Thomas Hess made for figures such as Barnett Newman and Willem de Kooning. They were grand enough to stifle aesthetic dissent. Only contact with the originals could have tested them, and we could not see the.
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... Kooning as well as Degas or Matisse, were formed by the atelier system and could no more have done without the particular skills it inculcated than an aircraft can fly without an airstrip. The philosophical beauty of Mondrian's squares ...
... Kooning as well as Degas or Matisse, were formed by the atelier system and could no more have done without the particular skills it inculcated than an aircraft can fly without an airstrip. The philosophical beauty of Mondrian's squares ...
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... Kooning might cost at auction. Thanks to the unrelenting propaganda of the art market this is no longer quite the case, and the imagery of money has been so crudely riveted onto the face of museum-quality art by events outside the ...
... Kooning might cost at auction. Thanks to the unrelenting propaganda of the art market this is no longer quite the case, and the imagery of money has been so crudely riveted onto the face of museum-quality art by events outside the ...
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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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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1992 |
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