Robert Hughes (1938 - 2012) Volition Move Missed

The fine art footing is actually going to miss Australian art critic too "national living treasure" Robert Hughes who died yesterday inward New York aged 74.

I'm inward no agency an goodness on Robert Hughes all the same I produce similar a human being who knows his ain hear when it comes to fine art too is uncompromising inward stating his views - too he was for certain that.  I loved all his fine art programmes on TV - it was fine art for those who don't desire it "dumbed down"!

He wrote extremely good too is undoubtedly 1 of those people who made fine art to a greater extent than accessible to many people - notably through his book The Shock of the New which must orbit every bit 1 of the most seminal books on the fine art of the twentieth century that has always been written.  (His TV serial of the same refer is available every bit a DVD set).

Here he is speaking close the move of Anselm Kiefer



At the same fourth dimension he was apt to criticise those he considered to endure corrupting or devaluing art.

Slamming the dead shark too diamond skull every bit 'absurd', outspoken Australian Robert Hughes says such commercial pieces accept made fine art meaningless - apart from its cost tag

In 1987 he published The Fatal Shore, his best selling job concern human relationship British penal colonies too the early European short town of Australia.

For those, similar me, who valued Robert Hughes I am providing below something you lot won't detect inward whatever of the other obituaries - too that's a compendium of links to:

• his articles close fine art too Commonwealth of Australia and 
• accounts of him every bit an private who had a really important behaviour upon on the fine art world

Robert Hughes on Art


The Guardian

• The unflinching eye (2003): Goya, a human being of the people, flora success every bit a portraitist to the Castilian aristocracy. But, writes Robert Hughes, it was his depictions of state of war too his pessimistic Black Paintings, reflecting the turbulence of 19th-century Europe too his ain sense of madness, that changed fine art for ever
• Force of Nature (2005) - The wandering exile is a mutual Romantic figure. But why was it too then inspiring to 19th-century German linguistic communication artists? Robert Hughes on how a field rediscovered itself
• View from the street (2007) - Roofs at night, tattoo-and-shave parlours too exuberant shopgirls - reportage of the everyday dominated early on 20th-century American art. The urgency of urban pith life was captured inward an explosion of prints, writes Robert Hughes
• Top critic lashes out at Hirst's 'tacky' art (2008) - This is his Guardian article just prior to the infamous Hirst auction inward the pump of the banking meltdown inward 2008.
• This is a YouTube video excerpt of a TV programme too his coming together amongst Albert Mugrabi - Robert Hughes: The Business of Art. Damien Hirst is all hype
• From the Observer archive, thirty Apr 1967: In celebration of Britain's response to Mark Rothko

Time Magazine (some articles alone accessible to those amongst a Time subscription)

• American Visions (1997) close the history of American Art
• Sold! The Art Market: Goes Crazy (1989)
• Master of the Yosemite (1979) close Ansel Adams

Robert Hughes on Australia

• Another country (2000) - written at the fourth dimension of the Sydney Olympics
• The Real Australia - written for Time Magazine

Art too majority critics on Robert Hughes

• The wild human being of the fine art world (International Herlad Tribune) - next the publication of his memoir "Things I didn't Know"

Obituaries

• I loved this paragraph inward the Guardian's Robert Hughes Obituary 

I described him inward the Guardian 1 time every bit writing the English linguistic communication of Shakespeare, Milton, Macaulay too Dame Edna Everage, too Hughes enjoyed the description. His prose was lithe, muscular too fast every bit a bunch of fives. He was incapable of writing the jargon of the fine art world, too consequently was treated past times its mandarins amongst fright too loathing. Much he cared.

• The New York Times Obituary - Australian fine art critic too author Robert Hughes dies inward New York
• The Independent - Renowned fine art critic Robert Hughes, 74, dies
• LA Times Culture Monster - Art critic Robert Hughes dies at 74
• Sydney Morning Herald - Robert Hughes dies inward New York
• The Australian - Art critic Robert Hughes dies inward New York at 74
• The Week United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland - Tributes for Robert Hughes, the 'world's most famous fine art critic'
• The Huffington Post - A Few Words About Robert Hughes (1938-2012)

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