Robert Hughes In Memoriam (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012)

Robert Hughes In Memoriam

(28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012)

´In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity .´

Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association’s F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America. Robert Hughes died in August 2012.

´I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in between.´

Robert Hughes, available titles

The Shock of the New

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding

Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists

American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America

Barcelona

Lucian Freud Paintings

Goya

Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (Oxford American Lectures)

Things I Didn’t Know: A Memoir

A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman (Library of Contemporary Thought)

Frank Auerbach

Amish: The Art of the Quilt

Nothing If Not Critical

 

Robert Hughes (1938 – 2012)

´The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.´

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