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Nothing If Not Critical
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Nothing If Not Critical
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Robert Hughes
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:448 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | Theory of art Art History |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781860468599
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Classifications | Dewey:700 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Vintage Publishing
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Imprint |
The Harvill Press
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Publication Date |
8 March 2001 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse.
Author Biography
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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