Profundo conocedor de su historia, su arte y su cultura, nos conduce en un recorrido fascinante por cerca de tres mil años de esplendor y decadencia de la que ha sido, en muchos sentidos, la capital del mundo, y evoca las grandes figuras de su pasa...
Robert Hughes nos ayuda a comprender algo mejor a un país forjado con violencia y ambición, y al mismo tiempo en la fe y el amor por la aventura. Una compleja y paradigmática nación fruto de la integración de diferentes...
"Beloved Dust "takes a realistic and contemporary view of human being as entirely physical (dust) and then shows it immersed in three great tides of the Holy Spirit, the traditional threefold rhythm of conversion, transfiguration, and glory.>...
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.
A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. 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...
"Robert Hughes is probably the best - and certainly the most accessible - art critic in the world . . in Barcelona his art-historical and his sociological talents converge in what is often a dazzling collage of Catalan peculiarities" FREDERICK...
"The shock of the New combines style, wit, pertinent anecdote, critical poise and scholarship to provide an exhilarating history of a century of art that has puzzled, threatened and outraged its detractors - and captivated its admirers. Robert Hughes...