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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 701
EAN: 9780140165241
ISBN: 014016524X
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 01, 1992
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Rating:  - So modern an art critic
Either you love Robert Hughes or you hate Robert Hughes. I consider him the greatest art critic alive and his insights on XX century art are irreplaceable pieces of wit and culture.
This book is a sum of most of the author's articles published in Time Magazine and other medias and covers old masters as well as modern and contemporary artists.The articles on Warhol and Basquiat, as well as the one on the NY art scene, are brilliant. I bought this book when it came out and rereading ... Read More
Rating: - An outspoken, but honest critique of art
An exceedingly thorough, yet entertaining, historical account of great painters of the past as well as of contemporary artists.
Hughes is candid and not influenced by traditional art critique; thus in many cases he offers a new way of looking at painters and paintings.
Rating:  - A Keen and Discerning Critical Eye
This collection of magazine reviews and essays, first published in 1990, serves as a short course in the development of American and European art over the last few centuries. The eye is keen, the mind is thoroughly grounded in art history and tradition, and the writing is lucid and provocative. Hughes wrote the magazine pieces while working as the art critic for Time Magazine. They tend to be triggered by major exhibitions of modern artists or major retrospectives of dead ones. Hughes always starts ... Read More
Rating: - Nice reading
Short essays, most of them published in Time magazine. Hughes'keen and witty look at several artists - from great masters to contemporary ones. We don't have to agree with everything he says, but he's always objective, concise and inteligent.
Rating: - THE book of art criticism to buy ...
I don't know much about art and I'm not even sure I know what I like. But it's obvious that this book is intelligently - and honestly - written, and I'm writing this review mainly to recommend the book to other people who aren't terribly interested in the visual arts. Hughes has made me think more highly of painting in general and made me re-evaluate much of what I thought about the twentieth century. (Don't worry: he also confirmed much of it.) He isn't at all afraid to announce that the emperor ... Read More
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