The Spectacle of Skill : : Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

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Call Number: 709 Hu
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Includes index.
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.
"A selection of the best writing by the most important--and thunderously outspoken--art and culture critic of our time, including approximately 125 never-before-seen pages from the unfinished second volume of his memoir, which he was working on at the time of his death in 2012. With an introduction by Adam Gopnik"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents: Mechanical paradise. -- Faces of power. -- Harbor and the exiles. -- Horse foaled by an acorn. -- Geographical unconscious. -- Decline of the city of Mahagonny. -- John Singer Sargent. -- James Whistler. -- Thomas Eakins. -- Jackson Pollock.

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