![]() Deadly accurate and timelessly entertaining, it is the contemporary counterpart to Sir Kenneth Clark’s equally memorable, but rather less forthright, BBC series, CIVILISATION, which itself was shot in a hundred-plus locations and shown in sixty countries. ![]() ![]() Yet here we are, many moons later, not merely saluting the prescience of his critiques, but their astonishing durability.Īs a one-stop guide to the rewards and mysteries of modern art, THE SHOCK OF THE NEW remains exceptional, even without its TV accompaniment. Nor did he know that the incomparable BBC series attached to it would become a visual beacon by which modern art would be judged. But little did he know, when this particular tome was first published, that it would still be going strong a third of a century later. THE FATAL SHORE, a riveting, beefy account of the founding of his beloved homeland, Australia). He also wrote books, some prodigiously revealing (e.g. ![]() ![]() He was also the most eloquent: witty, trenchant, and painfully accurate, his peerless essays (which have, disgracefully, yet to be properly anthologised) both charmed and educated a generation. In the thirty-odd years that Robert Hughes wrote for TIME, he became the most respected art critic in the English-speaking world. ![]()
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