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Robert Hughes (critic)

May 04, 2023

For other people named Robert Hughes, see Robert Hughes (disambiguation).

Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO (28 July 1938 – 6 August 2012) was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world."[1][2]

Robert Hughes

AO
Born
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes

(1938-07-28)28 July 1938
Sydney, Australia
Died6 August 2012(2012-08-06) (aged 74)
New York City, U.S.
EducationSaint Ignatius' College, Riverview
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
Occupations
Spouses
Parents
Relatives

Hughes earned widespread recognition for his book and television series on modern art, The Shock of the New, and for his longstanding position as art critic with TIME magazine. He is also known for his best seller The Fatal Shore (1986), a study of the British convict system in early Australian history. Known for his contentious critiques of art and artists, Hughes was generally conservative in his tastes, although he did not belong to a particular philosophical camp. His writing was noted for its power and elegance.[2]

Early life

Hughes was born in Sydney, in 1938. His father and paternal grandfather were lawyers. Hughes's father, Geoffrey Forrest Hughes, was a pilot in the First World War, with later careers as a solicitor and company director. He died from lung cancer when Robert was aged 12.[1][2] His mother was Margaret Eyre Sealy, née Vidal. His elder brother was Australian politician Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes,[3] the father of former Sydney Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull, the wife of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. He had another brother Geoffrey and one sister, Constance.

Growing up in Rose Bay, Sydney,[4] Hughes was educated at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview before studying arts and then architecture at the University of Sydney.[5][6] At university, he associated with the Sydney "Push" – a group of artists, writers, intellectuals and drinkers. Among the group were Germaine Greer and Clive James.[1]

Career

As an art critic

Hughes, an aspiring artist and poet, abandoned his university endeavours to become first a cartoonist and then an art critic for the Sydney periodical The Observer, edited by Donald Horne.[7] Hughes was briefly involved in the original Sydney version of Oz magazine and wrote art criticism for Nation and The Sunday Mirror.[citation needed]

In 1961, while still a student, Hughes was caught up in controversy when a number of his classmates demonstrated in a student newspaper article that he had published plagiarised poetry by Terence Tiller and others, and a drawing by Leonard Baskin.[8]

Hughes left Australia for Europe in 1964, living for a time in Italy before settling in London in 1965,[1] where he wrote for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, and The Observer, among others, and contributed to the London version of Oz. In 1970 he was appointed art critic for TIME magazine and moved to New York, where he soon became an influential voice.[6]

In 1966 Hughes published a history of Australian painting titled The Art of Australia, still considered an important work.[1]

Hughes wrote and narrated the BBC eight-part series The Shock of the New (1980) on the development of modern art since the Impressionists.[9] It was produced and in part directed by Lorna Pegram.[10] It was accompanied by a book with the same title. John O'Connor of The New York Times said, "Agree or disagree, you will not be bored. Mr. Hughes has a disarming way of being provocative."[9]

External video
  Booknotes interview with Hughes on American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, July 20, 1997, C-SPAN

Hughes's TV series American Visions (1997) reviewed the history of American art since the Revolution.[1] Hughes's documentary on Francisco Goya, Goya: Crazy Like a Genius (2002),[5] was broadcast on the first night of the new British domestic digital service, BBC Four.[citation needed] He created a one-hour update to The Shock of the New, titled The New Shock of the New, which first aired in 2004.[11] He published the first volume of his memoirs, Things I Didn’t Know, in 2006.[12]

As a journalist and historian

Hughes and Harold Hayes were recruited in 1978 to anchor the new ABC News (US) newsmagazine 20/20. His only broadcast, on 6 June 1978, proved so controversial that, less than a week later, ABC News president Roone Arledge terminated the contracts of both men, replacing them with veteran TV host Hugh Downs.[2]

Hughes's book The Fatal Shore followed in 1987. A study of the British penal colonies and early European settlement of Australia, it became an international best-seller.[2] During the late 1990s, Hughes was a prominent supporter of the Australian Republican Movement.[13] Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore (2000) was a series musing on modern Australia and Hughes's relationship with it. During production, Hughes was involved in a near-fatal road accident.[14]

Personal life

Hughes met his first wife, Danne Emerson, in London in 1967. Together they became involved in the counterculture of the 1960s, exploring drug use and sexual freedom.[2][15] They divorced in 1981; she died of a brain tumour in 2003.[2][16] Their son, Danton, Hughes's only child,[1] was named after the French revolutionary Georges Danton.[5] Danton Hughes, a sculptor, committed suicide in April 2001; he was found by his partner, fashion designer Jenny Kee, with whom he had been in a long-term relationship. Robert Hughes later wrote: "I miss Danton and always will, although we had been miserably estranged for years and the pain of his loss has been somewhat blunted by the passage of time".[6]

Hughes was married to his second wife, Victoria Whistler, from 1981 until a divorce in 1996.[6]

In 1999, Hughes was involved in a near-fatal car accident south of Broome, Western Australia. He was returning from a fishing trip and driving on the wrong side of the road when he collided head on with another car carrying three occupants. He was trapped in the car for three hours before being airlifted to Perth in critical condition.[14] Hughes was in a coma for five weeks after the crash.[17] In a 2000 court hearing, Hughes's defence barrister alleged that the occupants of the other car had been transporting illicit drugs at the time of the accident and were at fault.[18] In 2003 Hughes pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing bodily harm and was fined A$2,500.[17] Hughes recounts the story of the accident and his recovery in the first chapter of his 2006 memoir Things I Didn't Know.[19][20]

In 2001, Hughes wed his third wife, the American artist and art director Doris Downes. "Apart from being a talented painter, she saved my life, my emotional stability, such as it is", he said.[21]

Death

After a long illness, Hughes died at Calvary Hospital in The Bronx, New York City, on 6 August 2012, with his wife at his bedside. He was also survived by two stepsons from his wife's previous marriage, Freeborn Garrettson Jewett IV and Fielder Douglas Jewett; his brothers, Tom and Geoffrey Hughes; a sister, Constance Crisp; and many nieces and nephews.[2]

Assessment

When The Shock of the New was proposed to the BBC, television programmers were sceptical that a journalist could properly follow the aristocratic tone of Kenneth Clark, whose Civilisation had been so successful.[22] The Shock of the New proved to be a popular and critical success: it has been assessed "much the best synoptic introduction to modern art ever written", taking as its premise the vitality gained by modern art when it ceded the need to replicate nature in favour of a more direct expression of human experience and emotion.[23] Hughes's explanations of modern art benefited from the coherence of his judgments, and were marked by his ability to summarise the essential qualities of his subject.[22]

Whether positive or negative, his judgments were enthusiastic. He championed London painters like Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud, helping to popularise the latter in the United States, and wrote with unabashed admiration for Francisco Goya and Pierre Bonnard.[24] By contrast Hughes was dismissive of much postmodernism and neo-expressionism, of painters like Julian Schnabel and David Salle, as well as the vicissitudes of a money-fuelled art market.[24] While his reviews expressed antipathy for the avant-garde, he was beholden neither to any theory nor ideology, and managed to provoke both ends of the political spectrum.[22][25] He distrusted novelty in art for its own sake, yet he was also disdainful of a conservative aesthetic that avoided risk. He famously labelled contemporary Australian indigenous art as "the last great art movement of the 20th century".[26] Hughes, according to Adam Gopnik, was drawn to work that was rough-hewn, "craft attempted with passion."[23]

Hughes's critical prose, vivid in both praise and indignation, has been compared to that of George Bernard Shaw,[23] Jonathan Swift[24] and William Shakespeare.[22][24] "His prose", according to a colleague, "was lithe, muscular and fast as a bunch of fives. He was incapable of writing the jargon of the art world, and consequently was treated by its mandarins with fear and loathing."[22] In different moods he could write that "Schnabel’s work is to painting what Stallone’s is to acting: a lurching display of oily pectorals,"[24] as well as conclude that Antoine Watteau "was a connoisseur of the unplucked string, the immobility before the dance, the moment that falls between departure and nostalgia."[22]

Artist Jakob Zaaiman has criticised Hughes's grasp of contemporary art, arguing that he was unable to see beyond a narrow and blinkered classical aestheticism, and so failed to appreciate its theatrical and narrative possibilities.[27] This was said to be particularly evident in his views of Andy Warhol.[28]

Honours

Bibliography

Books

  • Hughes, Robert (1965). Donald Friend. Sydney: Edwards and Shaw.
  • — (1966). The Art of Australia. ISBN 0-14-020935-2.
  • — (1968). Heaven and Hell in Western Art. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-17671-8.
  • — (1987). The Fatal Shore. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. ISBN 0-394-50668-5.
  • — (1989). Lucian Freud Paintings. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27535-1.
  • — (1990). Frank Auerbach. Thames and Hudson.
  • — (1991). Nothing if Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists (Including 'SoHoiad'). London: The Harvill Press. ISBN 1-86046-859-4.
  • — (1991). The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change (updated and enlarged ed.). Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-27582-3.
  • — (1992). Barcelona. Vintage. ISBN 0-394-58027-3.
  • — (1993). Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507676-1.
  • — (1998). A Jerk on One End: Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman. ISBN 0-345-42283-X.
  • — (1998). American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. London: The Harvill Press. ISBN 1-86046-533-1.
  • — (2001). Barcelona: the Great Enchantress. ISBN 0-7922-6794-X. (Condensed version of Barcelona)
  • — (2004). Goya. Vintage. ISBN 0-09-945368-1.
  • — (2006). Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir. Alfred A. Knopf Inc. ISBN 1-4000-4444-8.
  • — (2011). Rome: A Cultural, Visual and Personal History. New York: Knopf.

Critical studies and reviews

Biographies

  • Anderson, Patricia (2009). Robert Hughes: The Australian Years, Sydney: Pandora Press; ISBN 978-0-9579142-2-3
  • Britain, Ian (1997). Once An Australian: Journeys with Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes, Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195537424

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Boynton, Robert S. (12 May 1997). "The Lives of Robert Hughes". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Kennedy, Randy (6 August 2012). "Robert Hughes, Art Critic Whose Writing Was Elegant and Contentious, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  3. ^ Duggan, Paul. Robert Hughes—a lawyer's farewell at pauldugganbarrister.com, 9 August 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2017
  4. ^ "'Robert Hughes was Australia's Dante,' says his friend Peter Carey". The Guardian. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  5. ^ a b c "Robert Hughes made high art accessible". The Australian. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d Williamson, Marcus (8 August 2012). "Robert Hughes: Forthright critic who transformed the public perception of modern art". The Independent. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  7. ^ Rose, Peter. . Australian Book Review. Archived from the original on 22 October 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  8. ^ Coombs A Sex and Anarchy: The life and death of the Sydney Push Viking Penguin Books (Australia, 1996) pp 158-9
  9. ^ a b O'Connor, John (11 January 1981). "A Provocative New Series on Modern Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  10. ^ "Pegram [née Woods], Lorna Gladys Hurst (1926–1993), television producer and novelist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53134. Retrieved 3 October 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  11. ^ Robert Hughes (30 June 2004). "Robert Hughes on updating The Shock of the New". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
  12. ^ "Things I didn't know: Book review". The Scotsman. 14 October 2006. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  13. ^ "Australian art critic Robert Hughes dies, aged 74". BBC News. 14 April 2003. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  14. ^ a b Rothenberg, Jackie (30 May 1999). "Art Critic Robert Hughes Seriously Hurt in Crash". New York Post. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  15. ^ Maunder, Patricia (7 August 2012). "Robert Hughes turned criticism into an art". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  16. ^ Hughes, Robert (2006). Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 296. ISBN 9780307385987.
  17. ^ a b "Art critic admits crash guilt". BBC News. 14 April 2003. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  18. ^ Rothenberg, Jackie (6 June 1999). "Drug Link Eyed For Men Who Struck Hughes's Car". New York Post. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  19. ^ Hughes, Robert (2006). Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 3–33. ISBN 9780307385987.
  20. ^ "Robert Hughes". The Telegraph. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  21. ^ Bennett, Lennie (9 November 2003). "The art of conversation". St. Petersburg Times Floridian. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  22. ^ a b c d e f McNay, Michael (6 August 2012). "Robert Hughes obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  23. ^ a b c Gopnik, Adam (7 August 2012). "Postscript: Robert Hughes". The New Yorker. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  24. ^ a b c d e Lacayo, Richard (7 August 2012). "The Art of Being Critical: Robert Hughes (1938–2012)". Time magazine. Retrieved 17 March 2013.
  25. ^ Woodward, Richard B. (8 August 2012). "The Most Feared Art Critic of His Time?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 February 2017. Robert Hughes, who died on Monday at the age of 74, leaves behind many admirers but few followers. The most feared art critic of his time, as learned as he was readable, he cultivated no acolytes who aped his opinions and verbal mannerisms, as did Clement Greenberg and Pauline Kael, critics of equal stature. Despite his professorial air, Hughes spurned academia and it has responded in kind.
  26. ^ Henly, Susan Gough (6 November 2005). "Powerful growth of Aboriginal art", The New York Times
  27. ^ Zaaiman, Jakob. "Robert Hughes and the 'dumb show' of modern contemporary art". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  28. ^ Zaaiman, Jakob. "Robert Hughes and Andy Warhol's 'stupidity'". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  29. ^ a b "Awards: Frank Jewett Mather Award". The College Art Association. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  30. ^ "It's an Honour: Australia Celebrating Australians". Government of Australia. 10 June 1991. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
  31. ^ "DECRET 360/2006, de 19 de setembre, de concessió de la Creu de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya".

External links

  • Robert Hughes at IMDb
  • Robert Hughes at Random House Australia
  • Valerie Lawson, Sydney Morning Herald, "After legal jousting and vitriol, Hughes fined in absentia for car crash" (2003)
  • Eric Ellis, The Bulletin, July 2002, "Shock of the Broome"
  • The New York Times Magazine – Food: Tuna Surprise (A fisherman's journey to Costa Rica)
  • The Nation – Christopher Hitchens column on Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir. (25 September 2006)
  • Enough Rope, ABC TV Interview – Andrew Denton and Robert Hughes. (13 November 2006)
  • at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 November 2012) with Hughes on CBC Radio's Writers and Company (January 2008)]
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • World Socialist Web Site obituary by Clare Hurley, "Art History with a capital A and H: Art critic and social historian Robert Hughes"

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For other people named Robert Hughes see Robert Hughes disambiguation Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO 28 July 1938 6 August 2012 was an Australian born art critic writer and producer of television documentaries He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as the most famous art critic in the world 1 2 Robert HughesAOBornRobert Studley Forrest Hughes 1938 07 28 28 July 1938Sydney AustraliaDied6 August 2012 2012 08 06 aged 74 New York City U S EducationSaint Ignatius College RiverviewAlma materUniversity of SydneyOccupationsArt critic Writer Television presenterSpousesDanne Emerson Victoria Whistler Doris DownesParentsGeoffrey Forrest Hughes Margaret VidalRelativesSir Thomas Hughes grandfather Tom Hughes brother Lucy Turnbull niece Hughes earned widespread recognition for his book and television series on modern art The Shock of the New and for his longstanding position as art critic with TIME magazine He is also known for his best seller The Fatal Shore 1986 a study of the British convict system in early Australian history Known for his contentious critiques of art and artists Hughes was generally conservative in his tastes although he did not belong to a particular philosophical camp His writing was noted for its power and elegance 2 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 As an art critic 2 2 As a journalist and historian 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Assessment 6 Honours 7 Bibliography 7 1 Books 7 2 Critical studies and reviews 8 Biographies 9 Notes 10 External linksEarly life EditHughes was born in Sydney in 1938 His father and paternal grandfather were lawyers Hughes s father Geoffrey Forrest Hughes was a pilot in the First World War with later careers as a solicitor and company director He died from lung cancer when Robert was aged 12 1 2 His mother was Margaret Eyre Sealy nee Vidal His elder brother was Australian politician Thomas Eyre Forrest Hughes 3 the father of former Sydney Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull the wife of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull He had another brother Geoffrey and one sister Constance Growing up in Rose Bay Sydney 4 Hughes was educated at Saint Ignatius College Riverview before studying arts and then architecture at the University of Sydney 5 6 At university he associated with the Sydney Push a group of artists writers intellectuals and drinkers Among the group were Germaine Greer and Clive James 1 Career EditAs an art critic Edit Hughes an aspiring artist and poet abandoned his university endeavours to become first a cartoonist and then an art critic for the Sydney periodical The Observer edited by Donald Horne 7 Hughes was briefly involved in the original Sydney version of Oz magazine and wrote art criticism for Nation and The Sunday Mirror citation needed In 1961 while still a student Hughes was caught up in controversy when a number of his classmates demonstrated in a student newspaper article that he had published plagiarised poetry by Terence Tiller and others and a drawing by Leonard Baskin 8 Hughes left Australia for Europe in 1964 living for a time in Italy before settling in London in 1965 1 where he wrote for The Spectator The Daily Telegraph The Times and The Observer among others and contributed to the London version of Oz In 1970 he was appointed art critic for TIME magazine and moved to New York where he soon became an influential voice 6 In 1966 Hughes published a history of Australian painting titled The Art of Australia still considered an important work 1 Hughes wrote and narrated the BBC eight part series The Shock of the New 1980 on the development of modern art since the Impressionists 9 It was produced and in part directed by Lorna Pegram 10 It was accompanied by a book with the same title John O Connor of The New York Times said Agree or disagree you will not be bored Mr Hughes has a disarming way of being provocative 9 External video Booknotes interview with Hughes on American Visions The Epic History of Art in America July 20 1997 C SPANHughes s TV series American Visions 1997 reviewed the history of American art since the Revolution 1 Hughes s documentary on Francisco Goya Goya Crazy Like a Genius 2002 5 was broadcast on the first night of the new British domestic digital service BBC Four citation needed He created a one hour update to The Shock of the New titled The New Shock of the New which first aired in 2004 11 He published the first volume of his memoirs Things I Didn t Know in 2006 12 As a journalist and historian Edit Hughes and Harold Hayes were recruited in 1978 to anchor the new ABC News US newsmagazine 20 20 His only broadcast on 6 June 1978 proved so controversial that less than a week later ABC News president Roone Arledge terminated the contracts of both men replacing them with veteran TV host Hugh Downs 2 Hughes s book The Fatal Shore followed in 1987 A study of the British penal colonies and early European settlement of Australia it became an international best seller 2 During the late 1990s Hughes was a prominent supporter of the Australian Republican Movement 13 Australia Beyond the Fatal Shore 2000 was a series musing on modern Australia and Hughes s relationship with it During production Hughes was involved in a near fatal road accident 14 Personal life EditHughes met his first wife Danne Emerson in London in 1967 Together they became involved in the counterculture of the 1960s exploring drug use and sexual freedom 2 15 They divorced in 1981 she died of a brain tumour in 2003 2 16 Their son Danton Hughes s only child 1 was named after the French revolutionary Georges Danton 5 Danton Hughes a sculptor committed suicide in April 2001 he was found by his partner fashion designer Jenny Kee with whom he had been in a long term relationship Robert Hughes later wrote I miss Danton and always will although we had been miserably estranged for years and the pain of his loss has been somewhat blunted by the passage of time 6 Hughes was married to his second wife Victoria Whistler from 1981 until a divorce in 1996 6 In 1999 Hughes was involved in a near fatal car accident south of Broome Western Australia He was returning from a fishing trip and driving on the wrong side of the road when he collided head on with another car carrying three occupants He was trapped in the car for three hours before being airlifted to Perth in critical condition 14 Hughes was in a coma for five weeks after the crash 17 In a 2000 court hearing Hughes s defence barrister alleged that the occupants of the other car had been transporting illicit drugs at the time of the accident and were at fault 18 In 2003 Hughes pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing bodily harm and was fined A 2 500 17 Hughes recounts the story of the accident and his recovery in the first chapter of his 2006 memoir Things I Didn t Know 19 20 In 2001 Hughes wed his third wife the American artist and art director Doris Downes Apart from being a talented painter she saved my life my emotional stability such as it is he said 21 Death EditAfter a long illness Hughes died at Calvary Hospital in The Bronx New York City on 6 August 2012 with his wife at his bedside He was also survived by two stepsons from his wife s previous marriage Freeborn Garrettson Jewett IV and Fielder Douglas Jewett his brothers Tom and Geoffrey Hughes a sister Constance Crisp and many nieces and nephews 2 Assessment EditWhen The Shock of the New was proposed to the BBC television programmers were sceptical that a journalist could properly follow the aristocratic tone of Kenneth Clark whose Civilisation had been so successful 22 The Shock of the New proved to be a popular and critical success it has been assessed much the best synoptic introduction to modern art ever written taking as its premise the vitality gained by modern art when it ceded the need to replicate nature in favour of a more direct expression of human experience and emotion 23 Hughes s explanations of modern art benefited from the coherence of his judgments and were marked by his ability to summarise the essential qualities of his subject 22 Whether positive or negative his judgments were enthusiastic He championed London painters like Frank Auerbach and Lucian Freud helping to popularise the latter in the United States and wrote with unabashed admiration for Francisco Goya and Pierre Bonnard 24 By contrast Hughes was dismissive of much postmodernism and neo expressionism of painters like Julian Schnabel and David Salle as well as the vicissitudes of a money fuelled art market 24 While his reviews expressed antipathy for the avant garde he was beholden neither to any theory nor ideology and managed to provoke both ends of the political spectrum 22 25 He distrusted novelty in art for its own sake yet he was also disdainful of a conservative aesthetic that avoided risk He famously labelled contemporary Australian indigenous art as the last great art movement of the 20th century 26 Hughes according to Adam Gopnik was drawn to work that was rough hewn craft attempted with passion 23 Hughes s critical prose vivid in both praise and indignation has been compared to that of George Bernard Shaw 23 Jonathan Swift 24 and William Shakespeare 22 24 His prose according to a colleague was lithe muscular and fast as a bunch of fives He was incapable of writing the jargon of the art world and consequently was treated by its mandarins with fear and loathing 22 In different moods he could write that Schnabel s work is to painting what Stallone s is to acting a lurching display of oily pectorals 24 as well as conclude that Antoine Watteau was a connoisseur of the unplucked string the immobility before the dance the moment that falls between departure and nostalgia 22 Artist Jakob Zaaiman has criticised Hughes s grasp of contemporary art arguing that he was unable to see beyond a narrow and blinkered classical aestheticism and so failed to appreciate its theatrical and narrative possibilities 27 This was said to be particularly evident in his views of Andy Warhol 28 Honours Edit1982 Frank Jewett Mather Award for art criticism given by the College Art Association of America 29 1985 second Frank Jewett Mather Award 29 1987 named New York Public Library Literary Lion 1988 named recipient of the American Academy of Achievement s Golden Plate Award 1988 W H Smith Literary Award for The Fatal Shore 1991 Officer of the Order of Australia 30 1995 granted an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Melbourne 1996 elected to membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1997 elected one of 40 Living National Treasures after a general vote conducted by the Australian media on behalf of the National Trust of Australia 2000 London Sunday Times Writer of the Year previous recipients of the award including Anthony Burgess Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and Salman Rushdie 2006 Creu de Sant Jordi 31 2007 New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for non fiction for Things I Didn t Know a Memoir 2009 The Mona Lisa Curse Winner of the 2009 Grierson Award for Best Documentary on the Arts Oxford Film and Television for Channel 4 UK 2009 International Emmy Award Arts Programming The Mona Lisa Curse Oxford Film and Television for Channel 4 UKBibliography EditBooks Edit Hughes Robert 1965 Donald Friend Sydney Edwards and Shaw 1966 The Art of Australia ISBN 0 14 020935 2 1968 Heaven and Hell in Western Art London Weidenfeld amp Nicolson ISBN 978 0 297 17671 8 1987 The Fatal Shore Alfred A Knopf Inc ISBN 0 394 50668 5 1989 Lucian Freud Paintings Thames amp Hudson ISBN 978 0 500 27535 1 1990 Frank Auerbach Thames and Hudson 1991 Nothing if Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists Including SoHoiad London The Harvill Press ISBN 1 86046 859 4 1991 The Shock of the New Art and the Century of Change updated and enlarged ed Thames and Hudson ISBN 0 500 27582 3 1992 Barcelona Vintage ISBN 0 394 58027 3 1993 Culture of Complaint The Fraying of America Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 507676 1 1998 A Jerk on One End Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman ISBN 0 345 42283 X 1998 American Visions The Epic History of Art in America London The Harvill Press ISBN 1 86046 533 1 2001 Barcelona the Great Enchantress ISBN 0 7922 6794 X Condensed version of Barcelona 2004 Goya Vintage ISBN 0 09 945368 1 2006 Things I Didn t Know A Memoir Alfred A Knopf Inc ISBN 1 4000 4444 8 2011 Rome A Cultural Visual and Personal History New York Knopf Critical studies and reviews Edit Stothard Peter September 2011 The old BC AD BCE CE errors abound in Robert Hughes s history of Rome Australian Book Review 334 8 9 Biographies EditAnderson Patricia 2009 Robert Hughes The Australian Years Sydney Pandora Press ISBN 978 0 9579142 2 3 Britain Ian 1997 Once An Australian Journeys with Barry Humphries Clive James Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes Oxford University Press ISBN 0195537424Notes Edit a b c d e f g Boynton Robert S 12 May 1997 The Lives of Robert Hughes The New Yorker Retrieved 22 February 2013 a b c d e f g h Kennedy Randy 6 August 2012 Robert Hughes Art Critic Whose Writing Was Elegant and Contentious Dies at 74 The New York Times Retrieved 22 February 2013 Duggan Paul Robert Hughes a lawyer s farewell at pauldugganbarrister com 9 August 2012 Retrieved 1 March 2017 Robert Hughes was Australia s Dante says his friend Peter Carey The Guardian 7 August 2012 Retrieved 22 February 2013 a b c Robert Hughes made high art accessible The Australian 7 August 2012 Retrieved 22 February 2013 a b c d Williamson Marcus 8 August 2012 Robert Hughes Forthright critic who transformed the public perception of modern art The Independent Retrieved 22 February 2013 Rose Peter Up on Stilts Australian Book Review Archived from the original on 22 October 2008 Retrieved 22 February 2013 Coombs A Sex and Anarchy The life and death of the Sydney Push Viking Penguin Books Australia 1996 pp 158 9 a b O Connor John 11 January 1981 A Provocative New Series on Modern Art The New York Times Retrieved 22 February 2013 Pegram nee Woods Lorna Gladys Hurst 1926 1993 television producer and novelist Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press 2004 doi 10 1093 ref odnb 53134 Retrieved 3 October 2020 Subscription or UK public library membership required Robert Hughes 30 June 2004 Robert Hughes on updating The Shock of the New The Guardian Retrieved 31 December 2012 Things I didn t know Book review The Scotsman 14 October 2006 Retrieved 22 February 2013 Australian art critic Robert Hughes dies aged 74 BBC News 14 April 2003 Retrieved 22 February 2013 a b Rothenberg Jackie 30 May 1999 Art Critic Robert Hughes Seriously Hurt in Crash New York Post Retrieved 22 February 2013 Maunder Patricia 7 August 2012 Robert Hughes turned criticism into an art The Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 22 February 2013 Hughes Robert 2006 Things I Didn t Know A Memoir New York Alfred A Knopf p 296 ISBN 9780307385987 a b Art critic admits crash guilt BBC News 14 April 2003 Retrieved 22 February 2013 Rothenberg Jackie 6 June 1999 Drug Link Eyed For Men Who Struck Hughes s Car New York Post Retrieved 7 August 2012 Hughes Robert 2006 Things I Didn t Know A Memoir New York Alfred A Knopf pp 3 33 ISBN 9780307385987 Robert Hughes The Telegraph 7 August 2012 Retrieved 22 February 2013 Bennett Lennie 9 November 2003 The art of conversation St Petersburg Times Floridian Retrieved 22 February 2013 a b c d e f McNay Michael 6 August 2012 Robert Hughes obituary The Guardian Retrieved 17 March 2013 a b c Gopnik Adam 7 August 2012 Postscript Robert Hughes The New Yorker Retrieved 17 March 2013 a b c d e Lacayo Richard 7 August 2012 The Art of Being Critical Robert Hughes 1938 2012 Time magazine Retrieved 17 March 2013 Woodward Richard B 8 August 2012 The Most Feared Art Critic of His Time The Wall Street Journal Retrieved 28 February 2017 Robert Hughes who died on Monday at the age of 74 leaves behind many admirers but few followers The most feared art critic of his time as learned as he was readable he cultivated no acolytes who aped his opinions and verbal mannerisms as did Clement Greenberg and Pauline Kael critics of equal stature Despite his professorial air Hughes spurned academia and it has responded in kind Henly Susan Gough 6 November 2005 Powerful growth of Aboriginal art The New York Times Zaaiman Jakob Robert Hughes and the dumb show of modern contemporary art a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help Zaaiman Jakob Robert Hughes and Andy Warhol s stupidity a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a Cite journal requires journal help a b Awards Frank Jewett Mather Award The College Art Association Retrieved 22 February 2013 It s an Honour Australia Celebrating Australians Government of Australia 10 June 1991 Retrieved 22 February 2013 DECRET 360 2006 de 19 de setembre de concessio de la Creu de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya External links EditRobert Hughes at IMDb Robert Hughes at Random House Australia Valerie Lawson Sydney Morning Herald After legal jousting and vitriol Hughes fined in absentia for car crash 2003 Eric Ellis The Bulletin July 2002 Shock of the Broome 1987 audio interview of Robert Hughes by Don Swaim of CBS Radio RealAudio The New York Times Magazine Food Tuna Surprise A fisherman s journey to Costa Rica The Nation Christopher Hitchens column on Things I Didn t Know A Memoir 25 September 2006 Enough Rope ABC TV Interview Andrew Denton and Robert Hughes 13 November 2006 Interview at the Wayback Machine archived 5 November 2012 with Hughes on CBC Radio s Writers and Company January 2008 Appearances on C SPAN Robert Hughes interviewed on Charlie Rose World Socialist Web Site obituary by Clare Hurley Art History with a capital A and H Art critic and social historian Robert Hughes Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Robert Hughes critic amp oldid 1145987407, wikipedia, 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