American Visions
by Hughes, Robert
Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. He has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. He has been art critic for TIME magazine for more than 25 years. His books include monographs on painters Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach, a history of Australian art, Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1969), The Shock of the New (1981), The Fatal Shore (1987), a book of social criticism entitled The Culture of Complaint (1995), Barcelona (1992), and a collection of reviews, Nothing If Not Critical (1990). Hughes is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes for his work, most recently an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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American Visions: The Epic Story of Art in America
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London: The Harvill Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very good +. A neat, very sound first impression, bound in publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine and front panel, 635 pages including 363 photographic plates, 323 in full colour. A couple of tiny marks to edges. After years as distinguished art critic of 'Time' magazine, Hughes delivers… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Harvill Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Robert Hughes's monumental overview of American painting, from the earliest escapes from Europe to the creation of world dominance in the 1950s and beyond. By the 1980s, when speculative madness had completely overtaken the scene, he sees little hope for a society divided against itself in a welter… Read more about this item Item Price
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UK: The Harvill Press, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has been the source of a rich artistic tradition. American Visions is a consistently revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection. There is some… Read more about this item Item Price
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United Kingdom: Harvill Press, 1997. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 200mm x 260mm. Jacket has light general wear and no tears. Minimal foxing to feps. Top tip of ffep and half-title page clipped. Otherwise internally clean. Signed by Robert Hughes to half-title page. Binding tight. 635pp. Item Price
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1997. Cloth, ix, 635 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. With 363 illustrations, 323 in full colour. "Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
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New York: Knopf, 1997-04-22. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed. Signed by Robert Hughes (signature only) on title page in black ink, stated First Edition (no number line presumed first), tight clean unmarked, absolutely NO age toning, looks unread, boarks new looking & undamaged, dust jacket NOT price-clipped, dj in protective… Read more about this item Item Price
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American Visions: Epic History of Art in America
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American Visions: The epic history of art in America
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London: Harvill, 1997. Second Impression. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. x,636pp, lavishly illus. Five pages have creased corners from poor storage else near fine copy. Monumental. Size: Thick 4to
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New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. The intense relationship between the American people and their surroundings has been the source of a rich artistic tradition. American Visions is a consistently revealing demonstration of the many ways in which artists have expressed this pervasive connection. In nine eloquent chapters, which… Read more about this item Item Price
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
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American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Hughes, Robert Published by Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A., 2009, Soft cover. Very light shelf wear, otherwise as new. Lavishly illustrated and packed with biographies, anecdotes, astute and stimulating critical commentary, and sharp social history, American Visions was originally published in association with a new eight-part PBS television series. Robert Hughes… Read more about this item Item Price
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