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Read this book. Revised edition, 1991, no designer credited.<\/em><\/p>\n “Robert Hughes”: those were the first words I wrote in the first post<\/a> for this blog, six years ago, referencing a piece Hughes had written about Rembrandt for the Guardian<\/em> that week. Re-reading his polemic Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America<\/em> earlier this year I was feeling guilty about not having read more of his books; in slight mitigation I did watch every appearance of his on British television following The Shock of the New<\/a><\/em>, and still have his American Visions<\/a><\/em> series imprisoned on VHS in a box somewhere, along with The Fatal Shore<\/em>, The New Shock of the New<\/em><\/a>, some one-off things he did about Barcelona and Goya, and Visions of Space<\/em>, a series of three films about European architects: Albert Speer<\/a>, Mies van der Rohe<\/a>, and Antonio Gaudi<\/a>. Thanks to YouTube many of these exceptional documentaries can be given a fresh viewing; follow the links. Hughes used to write for the Guardian<\/em> regularly so it’s no surprise they’ve filled several pages with memorials:<\/p>\n \u2022 Obituary by Michael McNay<\/a> Elsewhere: Read this book. Revised edition, 1991, no designer credited. “Robert Hughes”: those were the first words I wrote in the first post for this blog, six years ago, referencing a piece Hughes had written about Rembrandt for the Guardian that week. Re-reading his polemic Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America earlier this year I … Continue reading “Robert Hughes, 1938\u20132012”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2,42,19],"tags":[166,233],"class_list":["post-11838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-television","tag-rembrandt","tag-robert-hughes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-34W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 “Robert Hughes was Australia’s Dante,” says his friend Peter Carey<\/a>
\n\u2022 Robert Hughes on art<\/a>
\n\u2022 Robert Hughes quotes: 20 of the best<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2022 NYT obituary by Randy Kennedy<\/a>
\n\u2022 “Robert Hughes: The art critic with a dash of the streetfighter”: Judith Flanders at the Telegraph<\/a>
\n\u2022 At Open Culture: Remembering Robert Hughes, the Art Critic Who Took No Prisoners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"