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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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
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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
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