Robert Hughes, Author . Knopf $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4444-3
Cultural critic Hughes (The Fatal Shore
) slices into his own life with his ever-ready scalpel of penetrating analysis, opening his saga in 1999 with his near-fatal car accident at age 60 in his native Australia. Glimpsing death, he perceives its...
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Robert Hughes, Author Oxford University Press Inc $35 (224p) ISBN 978-0-19-507676-9
Euphemism, evasion and propaganda are woven into the fabric of American public discourse, declares Time art critic Hughes. In a withering, salubrious jeremiad, he lashes our ``culture of complaint'' in which seemingly everyone claims victim status...
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Robert Hughes, Author Vintage Books USA $19.95 (752p) ISBN 978-0-394-75366-9
Hughes, art critic at Time, offers a vast and entertaining history of his native land's early years as a ""thief colony,'' i.e., the place to which, beginning in 1788, Britain transported some 160,000 convicts. ``The book abounds with stories of...
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Robert Hughes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $49.95 (444p) ISBN 978-0-679-72876-4
The author of The Fatal Shore and Time magazine's art critic here presents a greatly expanded version of a PBS television series on modern art, and includes some 270 color illustrations. Although he frequently deals in generalities, ``choice...
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Robert Hughes, Author Penguin Books $18 (448p) ISBN 978-0-14-016524-1
Time 's art critic assesses four centuries of Western art. (Feb.)
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Robert Hughes, Author Vintage Books USA $19.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-679-74383-5
Hughes's historical-cultural treatise on the Catalonian capital sparkles on the topic of architecture. Photos. (Mar.)
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Robert Hughes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-394-58026-5
This generous compendium of Hughes's ( The Shock of the New ) writings of the last decade offers an illuminating and incendiary look into art past and present. The author, art critic for Time , here spans four centuries of Western art--from...
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Robert Hughes, Author Thames & Hudson $45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-500-09211-8
Auerbach's portrait paintings, with their thick, overloaded surfaces, existentially searching figures and intimations of personal loss, went against the grain of the Hockney-ed '70s. Born in Germany in 1931 to a Berlin lawyer and a Lithuanian artist,
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Robert Hughes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $27.5 (573p) ISBN 978-0-394-58027-2
This historical-cultural treatise on the Catalan capital arrives in time to prime tourists for the 1992 Olympics--although the city's parking problems will almost certainly not be solved by then. An observant and penetrating writer, Hughes, art...
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Robert Hughes, Author Grand Central Publishing $13.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-446-67034-0
The art critic offers a withering jeremiad for an American culture plagued by political correctness in this PW bestseller. (Sept.)
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Robert Hughes, Author Alfred A. Knopf $65 (648p) ISBN 978-0-679-42627-1
Hughes, an Australian citizen who has lived in New York since 1970, when he became the art critic at Time magazine, describes his history of the objects and images created in America since the arrival of Europeans as a ""love letter to America.""...
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Robert Hughes, Author National Geographic Society $20 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7922-6794-2
In this pared-down version of his acclaimed Barcelona (1992), art critic Hughes traces Barcelona's progress from a burgeoning port city to the booming Catalan capital that roughly 1.5 million people call home today. Hughes's portrait chronologically
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Robert Hughes, Author . Knopf $40 (429p) ISBN 978-0-394-58028-9
A long life and vast works make fitting subjects for the epic-minded Hughes (The Shock of the New, etc.). Born in Aragon in 1746, Goya weathered the Peninsular Wars (1808–1814) in Spain and lived to the age of 82, when he died in self-imposed...
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Robert Hughes. Knopf, $35 (512p) ISBN 978-0-307-26844-0
With elegance and beauty, Hughes, who for three decades was Time's chief art critic, majestically conducts us through the rich history of Rome, a city he discovered as a young man, which for him gave physical form to the ideal of art and "turned art,
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Robert Hughes. Knopf, $35 (688p) ISBN 978-1-400-04445-0
The staggering erudition of Time art critic Hughes (1938–2012) is on full and glorious display in this impressive collection. Excerpts from his two best-loved books—The Fatal Shore, about his native Australia’s history, and The Shock of the New,...
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