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Barcelona : The Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions) by Robert Hughes
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Travel
Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In < i> Barcelona the Great Enchantress, < /i> Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metr ...Show more
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Goya by Robert Hughes
$64.95 NZD
Category: General Biography
A subtle, insightful and lively biography of one of Europe's greatest artists, by one of the world's foremost living commentators on cultural history and the visual arts who is also a passionate admirer of all things Spanish. The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain i ...Show more
Goya by Robert Hughes
$48.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain is Hughes' own first encounter with the artist's work when he was a student in Australia. The remainder of the book charts the artist's entire career, describing his painted and graphic oeuvre within its historial context. Part ...Show more
Rome by Robert Hughes
$30.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
$84.00 NZD
Category: General | 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 Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Anthologies
" 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
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