Robert Hughes Books

"The Portable Magritte" represents a new approach to the enjoyment and study of art in book form. With more than 400 color reproductions and a compact handheld size, this book manages to be affordable and comprehensive. It's like a catalogue raisonne that fits in a backpack. This accessible format is a perfect match for the paintings of Rene Magritte-one of the few twentieth-century painters whose works are immediately approachable and who has an enduring cultlike following. His surrealistic and mysterious visions always provoke introspective thought and imagination. All of Magritte's most characteristic and beloved motifs-the green apple, the bowler hat, and the dreamlike twilight hour-make their appearance, along with some surprising lesser-known paintings. The artist's method and meaning is explored in an intriguing essay by Robert Hughes, the art critic for "Time" magazine and acclaimed commentator on art and culture. A hip and current update on this timeless artist, "The Portable Magritte" makes an ideal gift for students as well as art lovers of any age.

The narrative provides an intimate glimpse into the challenges and joys of raising a child with low-functioning autism, crafted by a respected journalist and teacher. It combines heartfelt storytelling with practical advice, making it both engaging and informative for parents navigating similar experiences. The author's insights aim to empower and support families while fostering understanding and compassion.

Explores 20th-century history, highlighting how modernism aimed to capture the era's experiences, emphasizing its significance for major art movements.

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 or worse. schovat popis

In Robert Hughes The Fatal Shore the reader is given the incredibly detailed history of a nation and people that was often not taught to its own schoolchildren as the past has long been considered a source of shame. This is the riveting story of the founding of Australia from its initial shiploads of criminal convicts landing on the continent in 1788 until independent nation status. It took only 80 years but Australia became a nation despite the inauspicious colonial beginning.

A handbook on carp fishing in which World Champions Rob Hughes and Simon Crow explain their methods and techniques. Topics include: the importance of strategy; carp and its environment; the next generation of carp; and tactics, rigs, bait and location of feeding areas.

Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States.

In this radical account of the decline of 20th-century American culture, the art critic of Time magazine insists that the politicization of almost every area of American culture has resulted in a fall in the standards required to hold such a diverse society together.

Presents eighty-two Amish masterpiece quilts from the Esprit Collection, with historical and interpretive commentaries

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.