Robert Hughes
Australian art critic who was the art critic for Time magazine for thirty years and wrote what many consider the finest history of art written in English. The Shock of the New accompanied his landmark BBC television series. The Fatal Shore is a sweeping history of the convict settlement of Australia.
Works
- The Shock of the NewHistory of modern art and its relationship to violence and progress
- The Fatal ShoreHistory of European settlement and imprisonment in colonial Australia
- Nothing If Not CriticalEssays of art criticism on modern and contemporary visual culture
- American VisionsSurvey of American art history and visual culture from origins to present
- GoyaBiographical study of the Romantic painter and his violent, tormented life