Goya by Robert Hughes
The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain is Hughes' own first encounter with the artist's work when he was a student in Australia. The remainder of the book charts the artist's entire career, describing his painted and graphic oeuvre within its historial context. Particular attention is paid to Goya's patrons, his favourite themes (portraits, scenes of warfare and terror, satirical prints and so on), his criticism of the Catholic Church and encounters with the Inquisition, his fierce anti-war stance and his reputation in his lifetime. What emerges is a picture of an artist deeply engaged with life around him and fully committed to documenting it with an unflinching eye for truth and injustice.
Goya is what a good art book - or indeed any book - should be; personal and clear-sighted, passionate and thoughtfulThe pugnacious Hughes knows what he knows about Goya, and he also knows how to express it. * Michael Prodger, Sunday Telegraph *
Robert Hughes s Goya manages, with his usual style and skill, to enter into the spirit of the most enigmatic of painters. * Colm Toibin, New Statesman *
an urbane, scholarly, immensely readable book that not only throws light on the artist s independent brilliance but also, in Hughes s wry and trenchant style, on the boorish parochialism of 18th-century Spain. * Sue Hubbard, The Independent *
an enthralling and illuminating - if uncharacteristically deferential - study... * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *
Robert Hughes s Goya manages, with his usual style and skill, to enter into the spirit of the most enigmatic of painters. * Colm Toibin, New Statesman *
an urbane, scholarly, immensely readable book that not only throws light on the artist s independent brilliance but also, in Hughes s wry and trenchant style, on the boorish parochialism of 18th-century Spain. * Sue Hubbard, The Independent *
an enthralling and illuminating - if uncharacteristically deferential - study... * Michael Kerrigan, The Scotsman *
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, both written before the present work. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, "criticism at its most intelligent and impressive, trenchant, lucid, elegantly written-"in the words of William Boyd; a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America, described in the Observer as " the most bracing of critical broadsides against new anti-intellectual tyrannies".
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843430544 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843430541 |
| Title | Goya |
| Author | Robert Hughes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2003-10-09 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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