Goya

Goya

Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art historyâ€™s most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco JosÃ© de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns.

With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goyaâ€™s development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life.
In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goyaâ€™s work.

Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis and the rich historical background is Hughesâ€™s own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about anotherâ€”and the result is truly spectacular.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780375711282
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2006-11-07
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375711282

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780375711282
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2006-11-07
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375711282

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