American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
by Hughes, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679426272
- ISBN 13
- 9780679426271
- Seller
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Synopsis
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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- Chaparral Books (US)
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- CHAPhugAMVI
- Title
- American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
- Author
- Hughes, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679426272
- ISBN 13
- 9780679426271
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997-04-22T00:00:01Z
- Size
- 129x29x164
- X weight
- 87 oz
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