![]() ![]() He is perhaps best known today for having written and narrated a public television show for the BBC called The Shock of the New, a review and celebration of the path taken by what has come to be known as “modern art,” after it was freed from the expectations of representationalism. ![]() He moved to the United States in 1970, serving as Time magazine's art critic, where he developed a reputation for forceful enthusiasm – both in his commendations and his condemnations. ![]() Sydney-born, Hughes studied art and architecture during his youth at Sydney University, moving to London in the 1960s, where he wrote the well regarded The Art of Australia (1966). The book won the Duff Cooper prize in 1987 and the W.H. The Fatal Shore (1986), a monograph by art critic and historian Robert Hughes, details the history of Australia, beginning with its origins as a Victorian penal colony. ![]()
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