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That Turkey Is Not Pining for the Fjords

Goya by Robert Hughes

January 22, 2020 by elderberrywine 2 Comments

What an awesome book.  I remember Robert Hughes from back in the day.  He was the art critic (as well as an artist in his own right) for Time Magazine, when I used to read it religiously.  He is also Australian, with rather a tumultuous past (including a five week coma following an accident), and the man has Opinions.  So I was ready to hear what he had to say about the Spanish artist Francisco Goya y Lucientes. But what I was not expecting was […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: art history, Robert Hughes, Spanish history

elderberrywine's CBR12 Review No:1 · Genres: History · Tags: art history, Robert Hughes, Spanish history ·
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This Prison Where I Live

The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

April 23, 2019 by blauracke Leave a Comment

From 1787 to 1868 160,000 men, women, and children were shipped to Australia by the British government, not only in order to cut down on the “criminal class” in the motherland, but also to colonise the continent along the way. Hughes’ approach to his examination of this transportation system is, as he calls it, from below, which means from the convicts’ side. This, however, doesn’t mean that he doesn’t at least touch upon almost every related topic, be it the social and political environment or […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Robert Hughes

blauracke's CBR11 Review No:18 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Robert Hughes ·
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