Editorial Knopf
Fecha de edición noviembre 2006
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780375711282
429 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
Robert Hughes first encountered Goya's work while a student in Australia. Looking at his etchings for the first time, he wondered what made it possible for an eighteenth-century Spanish artist to convey the essence of despair, loneliness, anxiety and loss to an adolescent two centuries and half a world away. Thus began a life-long process of discovery and analysis. In many ways a labour of love, Goya charts the Spanish master's career, describing his entire painted and graphic oeuvre within its historical context. Containing lively biographical sketches of Goya's patrons and insightful analysis of his recurring themes, Hughes' book examines Goya's fierce pacifism and his reputation within his lifetime and after his death.
Robert Hughes (Sidney, 1938 x{0026} x02013; Nueva York 2012) vivió desde 1970 en Estados Unidos, donde ejerció de crítico de arte para la revista Time. Es autor de The Fatal Shore (1987), The Shock of the New (1991), A toda crítica (1992), Barcelona (1996) y Goya (2004). Sus libros han recibido un gran número de galardones, como el Premio Brusi de Literatura y Comunicación.
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