American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
by Hughes, Robert
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679426272
- ISBN 13
- 9780679426271
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Synopsis
Robert Hughes was born in Australia in 1938. He has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. He has been art critic for TIME magazine for more than 25 years. His books include monographs on painters Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach, a history of Australian art, Heaven and Hell in Western Art (1969), The Shock of the New (1981), The Fatal Shore (1987), a book of social criticism entitled The Culture of Complaint (1995), Barcelona (1992), and a collection of reviews, Nothing If Not Critical (1990). Hughes is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes for his work, most recently an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 071443
- Title
- American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America
- Author
- Hughes, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0679426272
- ISBN 13
- 9780679426271
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Size
- 4to
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 4. Late 19th Century; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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