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Barcelona by Robert Hughes
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: National Geographic Directions Ser.
Hughes distills his encyclopaedic knowledge of Barcelona into a work with all the essential information. The text describes the city's remarkable culture and history.
Barcelona by Hughes Robert
$44.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Panther Ser.
Focusing on the architectural foundations of this extraordinary city, Robert Hughes' account of Barcelona's growth in relation to the region of Catalunya also features political, economic and military drama.
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$27.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia; An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam; Henry Gifford (Introduction by); Sidney Monas (Translator); Clarence Brown (Translator); Robert Hughes (Translator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only. Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the ...Show more
Nothing If Not Critical by Robert Hughes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design
From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for hi ...Show more
Rome by Robert Hughes
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye ov ...Show more
Rome - A Cultural History by Robert Hughes
$50.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life thinking and writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$65.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: 60th Anniversary Edition
This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modernism sought to describe the experie ...Show more
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$60.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
A tour de force of writing on art This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modern ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
" I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it s an expert gardener at wor ...Show more