Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes
Most remembered for a bestselling Australian historical study titled The Fatal Shore, he also worked as a Time magazine art critic and hosted an art-themed television program called The Shock of the New.
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 July 1938
CountryAustralia
art culture mining
What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.
art standards
No art goes unmediated by other art.
taste should smarter
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?
zeitgeist
There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.
miracle catholic firsts
One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.
art interesting cooking
It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.
art teaching inspiration
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.
sports football sea
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.
strong ego mind
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.
america nostalgia
In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.
portraits trout rubens
A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.
brother reality years
At 40 years of age, I thought I knew everything. I got a reality check with this class. Kenny (Winston) has become like a big brother to me. We've learned to agree to disagree. I hope and pray that this program continues and we all keep in touch. I'm a st
eye views perspective
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen by a one-eyed, motionless person who is clearly detached from what he sees. It makes a God of the spectator, who becomes the person on whom the whole world converges, the Unmoved Onlooker.
travel cathedrals dedicated
It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.