Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists by Robert Hughes (En

Description: Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists by Robert Hughes The most controversial art critic in America—author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New—looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists from the past to the present. Hughes evokes and defines the essences, works and worlds of a wide range of artists. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Americas 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 Schnabels "work is to painting what Stallones is to acting"; he calls John Constables 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. Author Biography About the Author: Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1938, Robert Hughes has been the art critic of Time since he moved from Europe to the United States in 1970. His books--The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, Nothing if Not Critical, Barcelona--have won many awards in Australia, America, and Europe, most recently (1992) the international El Brusi prize for literature and communications given by the Olimpiada Cultural in Barcelona. Table of Contents Nothing If Not Critical - Robert Hughes Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny Part One: Ancestors Hans Holbein Caravaggio France in the Golden Age Anthony Van Dyck George Stubbs Sir Joshua Reynolds Goya Zurbar Details ISBN014016524X Author Robert Hughes Short Title NOTHING IF NOT CRITICAL Pages 448 Publisher Penguin Books Language English ISBN-10 014016524X ISBN-13 9780140165241 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 709 Year 1992 Publication Date 1992-02-28 Residence US Birth 1958 Imprint Penguin Books Subtitle Selected Essays on Art and Artists DOI 10.1604/9780140165241 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:6733687;

Price: 49.02 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2024-11-25T23:44:11.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 AUD