Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists: 9 (Harvill Press editions) - Softcover

Hughes, Robert

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9781860466526: Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists: 9 (Harvill Press editions)

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ISBN 10: 1860466524 ISBN 13: 9781860466526

Publisher: Harvill Press, 1999

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A selection of essays on art and artists, this text presents the authors arguments for the real values of art and outlines the way ahead for artist in the 1990s. He tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from Old Masters to his contemporaries, exploring their achievements (or lack of it).

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A timeline of artistic endeavour from the formal resources of the past to the boom-and-bust media hype of a postmodern age.

In these celebrated essays Robert Hughes explores the lives and works of more than 80 artists, from Hans Holbein to Andy Warhol and beyond, assessing their achievements (or lack of them) and how they altered the history of art for better or for worse. Castigating the excesses of the 1980s New York art scene, with its manufactured celebrity and inflated prices, he argues for the real values of art and outlines the way ahead for a new generation of artists.

About the Author:

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.

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