The spectacle of skill : selected writings of Robert Hughes / Robert Hughes ; [introduction by Adam Gopnik].

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012 (Author)
Other Authors:	Gopnik, Adam
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Hughes, Robert, > 1938-2012. Art. Art and society. Modernism (Art) Art critics > Australia > Biography.
Uniform Title:	Works.

Table of Contents:

The Shock of the New. The Mechanical Paradise ; The Faces of Power
The Fatal Shore . The Harbor and the Exiles ; A Horse Foaled by an Acorn ; The Geographical Unconscious
Nothing if Not Critical . The Decline of the City of Mahagonny ; John Singer Sargent ; James Whistler ; Thomas Eakins ; Jackson Pollock ; Mark Rothko in Babylon ; Andy Warhol ; Julian Schnabel ; Art and money
Barcelona. The Color of a Dog Running Away ; "If Not, Not" ; Going to the Fair ; The Hermit in the Cave of Making
American Visions
A Jerk on One End
Goya. Driving into Goya ; The Caprichos ; War with Napoleon
Things I Didn't Know. A Bloody Expat ; A Sydney Childhood ; Among the Cadets of Christ ; Uni and After ; Wading in Florence
Rome. Prologue ; Renaissance ; Epilogue
From the Unfinished Memoir. Coming to Time ; SoHo ; Graft - Things You Didn't Know ; My Friend Robert Rauschenberg ; 20/20 ; The Shock of the New ; High Trash ; Tuna Surprise ; Long Island ; Helga ; Danton - I Hardly Knew You.

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