Comments on: Robert Hughes RIP https://metabunker.dk/2012/08/07/robert-hughes-rip/ by matthias wivel & friends Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:48:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Matthias Wivel https://metabunker.dk/2012/08/07/robert-hughes-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-36432 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:48:02 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=4723#comment-36432 Heh, yes, that’s an evocative description. I’m still catching up on the tv version of “Shock”, having mostly been familiar with the book — it’s fantastic.

]]> By: Mike https://metabunker.dk/2012/08/07/robert-hughes-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-36387 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 12:34:30 +0000 http://metabunker.dk/?p=4723#comment-36387 Hughes wielded language like a knife. In the Carravagio clip here he describes the flogger as “a monkey-faced, gap-toothed little runt, who clearly loves his job.”

I vividly remember The Shock of the New from the first time around. He took us into the great galleries and stood us in front of great pictures and urged us to look, see, understand and think.

Art criticism in language that could not be misunderstood.

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