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By Robert Hughes,Adam Gopnik

ISBN-10: 030738599X

ISBN-13: 9780307385994

ISBN-10: 1400044456

ISBN-13: 9781400044450

“I am thoroughly an elitist, within the cultural yet emphatically no longer the social experience. I want the great to the undesirable, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically constructed to the in basic terms primitive, and entire to partial realization. i like the spectacle of ability, no matter if it’s a professional gardener at paintings, or a superb chippie cutting dovetails . . . I don’t imagine silly or ill-read everyone is nearly as good to be with as clever and entirely literate ones. I might quite watch an exceptional tennis participant than a mediocre one . . . hence, lots of the human race doesn’t topic a lot to me, outdoors the traditional and priceless body of courtesy and the duty to recognize human rights. I see no cause to squirm round apologizing for this. i'm, in spite of everything, a cultural critic, and my major activity is to tell apart the great from the second-rate.”

Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty approximately paintings, structure, tradition, faith, and himself. He translated his passions—of which there have been many, either confident and negative—brilliantly, convincingly, and with energy and immediacy, continually maintaining himself to a similar rigorous criteria of ability, authenticity, and value that he did his topics. There by no means was once, and not could be back, a voice like this. during this quantity, that voice earrings transparent via a meeting of a few of his such a lot unforgettable writings, culled from 9 of his most generally learn and significant books. this feature exhibits his huge, immense variety and provides us a uniquely cohesive view of either the critic and the fellow.

so much revealing, and such a lot exciting for Hughes’s legions of enthusiasts, are the never-before-published pages from his unfinished moment quantity of memoirs. those final writings exhibit Robert Hughes on the peak of his powers and will be learn merely with excitement and a tinge of unhappiness that his awesome voice is not any longer right here to teach us in addition to to explain and outline our world.

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