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Goya

Goya

by RobertHughes (Author)

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    Hardcover 2003

    $20.89
Synopsis

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 historical 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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 432
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Harvill Press
Published: 09 Oct 2003
ISBN 10: 1843430541
ISBN 13: 9781843430544
Book Overview: A subtle, insightful and lively biography of one of Europe's greatest artists, by one of the world's foremost living commentators on cultural history and the visual arts who is also a passionate admirer of all things Spanish.

Media Reviews
Goya is what a good art book - or indeed any book - should be; personal and clear-sighted, passionate and thoughtful. The 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 *
Author Bio
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 .