Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists - Softcover

Hughes, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014016524X ISBN 13: 9780140165241

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1992

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

ROBERT HUGHES was born in Australia in 1938 and has lived in Europe and the United States since 1964.  Since 1970, he has been art critic for Time magazine.  He has twice won the College Art Association’s F.J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism.  His books include The Art of Australia (1966), Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1969), and a chronicle of the settlement of Australia, The Fatal Shore (1987).  His study of modern art, The Shock of the New (1981), is being reissued in an updated edition simultaneously with the publication of Nothing If Not Critical, Mr. Hughes lives in Manhattan and on Long Island.

From Library Journal:

This collection brings together over 90 essays, many of which have already appeared in major journals. Hughes considers the Masters, 19th-century art and artists, the Modernist spirit, American and European painters, and contemporary artists in prose that is historically informative, understandable, witty, and often opinionated. Perhaps most interesting is Hughes's introduction, a recognition and partial analysis of New York City's decline as the center of the art world. This well-written, thought-provoking collection will appeal to most who find art and the art world important and entertaining. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/90.
- Jean Keleher, Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 014016524X
• ISBN 13: 9780140165241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448