Book description
Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken
on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities
to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the
time he quit Australia for the United States.
Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, Hughes
uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex,
religion, writing and life itself.
Piercing, razor-sharp, and above all, fearless, this is by far
Hughes's most personal writing to date.
Robert Hughes, art critic of
Time
magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F.
J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is the author of
The
Shock of the New
and
Heaven and Hell in Western Art.
He is also the author of the acclaimed
Nothing if Not Critical
-- which William Boyd described as 'criticism at its most intelligent
and impressive, trenchant, lucid, elegantly written' --
Barcelona
and
Culture of Complaint
, essays on the fraying of America, described in the
Observer
as 'the most bracing of critical broadsides against new
anti-intellectual tyrannies'. Robert Hughes died in August 2012.
