Robert Hughes (1) (1938–2012)
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Robert Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia on July 28, 1938. He studied art and architecture at the University of Sydney. He pursued art criticism mostly as a sideline while painting, writing poetry and serving as a cartoonist for the weekly intellectual journal The Observer. He left Australia and mostrar más spent time in Italy before settling in London, where he became a well-known critical voice and wrote for several newspapers. He was chief art critic for Time magazine for over 30 years. He wrote several books including The Fatal Shore, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America, Things I Didn't Know, and Rome. He also hosted an eight-part documentary about the development of modernism from the Impressionists through Warhol entitled The Shock of the New. It was seen by more than 25 million viewers when it ran first on BBC and then on PBS. He also wrote a book by the same name about the series. He died after a long illness on August 6, 2012 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Joyce Ravid
Series
Obras de Robert Hughes
A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman (Library of Contemporary Thought) (1999) 85 copias
Film 3 copias
Corberó a Cap Roig 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Condé Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys: Great Writers on Great Places (2007) — Contribuidor — 255 copias
The Ern Malley Affair (1993) — Introducción, algunas ediciones; Epílogo, algunas ediciones — 104 copias
Art of the Real : Nine American Figurative Painters (1983) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones; Prólogo — 21 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1938-07-28
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2012-08-06
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australië
- País (para mapa)
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Sydney, Australië
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Bronx, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, USA
- Educación
- University of Sydney
St Ignatius' College, Riverview, New South Wales, Australia - Ocupaciones
- art critic
writer
television documentary maker
journalist
historian - Relaciones
- Hughes, Thomas Eyre Forrest (brother)
Downes, Doris (wife) - Organizaciones
- Time
- Premios y honores
- Order of Australia (Officer ∙ 1991)
Australian Living Treasure (1997)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1996)
Frank Jewett Mather Award (1982 ∙ 1985)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
Creu de Sant Jordi (2006) (mostrar todos 8)
Grierson Award (2006)
W. H. Smith Literary Award (1988)
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Reseñas
Listas
Folio Society (1)
My TBR list (1)
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- Obras
- 50
- También por
- 10
- Miembros
- 10,250
- Popularidad
- #2,316
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 126
- ISBNs
- 251
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 14
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