Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. Beginning in 1970 he lived and worked in the United States, where until 2001 he was chief art critic for Time. His books include The Shock of the New, The Fatal Shore, Nothing If Not Critical, Barcelona, Goya, and Things I Didn't Know. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes for his work. Hughes died in 2012.
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Rome
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage | History - Europe - Western; History - Italy; Art - History - European
978-0-375-71168-8 (0-375-71168-6)
October 30, 2012 | $22.50
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization.
Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he...
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 512 pages | Vintage | History - Europe - Western; History - Italy; Art - History - European
978-0-375-71168-8 (0-375-71168-6)
October 30, 2012 | $22.50
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From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization.
Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he...
Goya
eBook | 448 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer; Art - Individual Artist
978-0-307-80962-9 (0-307-80962-5)
May 23, 2012 | $23.99
Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The...
Written by Robert Hughes
eBook | 448 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer; Art - Individual Artist
978-0-307-80962-9 (0-307-80962-5)
May 23, 2012 | $23.99
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Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Nothing If Not Critical
eBook | 400 pages | Knopf | Art - Criticism; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer
978-0-307-80959-9 (0-307-80959-5)
February 22, 2012 | $14.99
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...
Written by Robert Hughes
eBook | 400 pages | Knopf | Art - Criticism; Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer
978-0-307-80959-9 (0-307-80959-5)
February 22, 2012 | $14.99
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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...
The Fatal Shore
eBook | 752 pages | Vintage | History - Australia & Oceania
978-0-307-81560-6 (0-307-81560-9)
January 11, 2012 | $15.99
The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Written by Robert Hughes
eBook | 752 pages | Vintage | History - Australia & Oceania
978-0-307-81560-6 (0-307-81560-9)
January 11, 2012 | $15.99
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The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Barcelona
eBook | 592 pages | Vintage | History
978-0-307-76461-4 (0-307-76461-3)
December 7, 2011 | $13.99
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern...
Written by Robert Hughes
eBook | 592 pages | Vintage | History
978-0-307-76461-4 (0-307-76461-3)
December 7, 2011 | $13.99
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Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Rome
Hardcover | 512 pages | Knopf | History - Europe - Western; History - Italy; Art - History - European
978-0-307-26844-0 (0-307-26844-6)
November 1, 2011 | $40.00
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
Written by Robert Hughes
Hardcover | 512 pages | Knopf | History - Europe - Western; History - Italy; Art - History - European
978-0-307-26844-0 (0-307-26844-6)
November 1, 2011 | $40.00
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From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Rome
eBook | 528 pages | Vintage | History - Europe - Western; History - Italy; Art - History - European
978-0-307-70058-2 (0-307-70058-5)
November 1, 2011 | $16.99
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
Written by Robert Hughes
eBook | 528 pages | Vintage | History - Europe - Western; History - Italy; Art - History - European
978-0-307-70058-2 (0-307-70058-5)
November 1, 2011 | $16.99
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From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome—as city, as empire, and, crucially, as an origin of Western art and civilization, two subjects about which Hughes has spent his life writing and thinking.
Starting on a...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Things I Didn't Know
eBook | 416 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-49827-4 (0-307-49827-1)
June 3, 2009 | $12.99
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a...
Written by Robert Hughes
eBook | 416 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-49827-4 (0-307-49827-1)
June 3, 2009 | $12.99
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Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Things I Didn't Know
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-38598-7 (0-307-38598-1)
December 4, 2007 | $22.50
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a...
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-307-38598-7 (0-307-38598-1)
December 4, 2007 | $22.50
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Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a...
Also available as an
eBook.
Goya
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer; Art - Individual Artist
978-0-375-71128-2 (0-375-71128-7)
November 7, 2006 | $39.95
Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The...
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography - Artist, Architect, Photographer; Art - Individual Artist
978-0-375-71128-2 (0-375-71128-7)
November 7, 2006 | $39.95
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Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The...
Also available as an
eBook.
American Visions
Trade Paperback | 648 pages | Knopf | Art - History - American; History - United States; Architecture
978-0-375-70365-2 (0-375-70365-9)
November 9, 1999 | $62.00
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.
The intense relationship between the American people...
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 648 pages | Knopf | Art - History - American; History - United States; Architecture
978-0-375-70365-2 (0-375-70365-9)
November 9, 1999 | $62.00
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Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.
The intense relationship between the American people...
Barcelona
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Vintage | History
978-0-679-74383-5 (0-679-74383-9)
March 9, 1993 | $24.00
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern...
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 592 pages | Vintage | History
978-0-679-74383-5 (0-679-74383-9)
March 9, 1993 | $24.00
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Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern...
The Shock of the New
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Knopf | Art - History
978-0-679-72876-4 (0-679-72876-7)
August 13, 1991 | $68.00
A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Knopf | Art - History
978-0-679-72876-4 (0-679-72876-7)
August 13, 1991 | $68.00
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A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.
The Fatal Shore
Trade Paperback | 752 pages | Vintage | History - Australia & Oceania
978-0-394-75366-9 (0-394-75366-6)
February 12, 1988 | $22.95
The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.
Written by Robert Hughes
Trade Paperback | 752 pages | Vintage | History - Australia & Oceania
978-0-394-75366-9 (0-394-75366-6)
February 12, 1988 | $22.95
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The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.
Also available as an
eBook.
