Dimensions
129 x 198 x 26mm
A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists by Robert Hughes. Fascinating, erudite and witty, but above all honest, Hughes punctures the bubble of 1980s New York, an era of manufactured celebrity, high prices, and indiscriminate praise.
In opposition of this "Walt Disney Academy for the Briefly New" he argues for the real values of art and outlines the way ahead for artists in the 1990s. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the Old Masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse.
