000280573 000__ 03254cam\a22003254a\45\0 000280573 001__ 280573 000280573 005__ 20210513104417.0 000280573 008__ 021204s2003\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0beng\\ 000280573 010__ $$a 2002043281 000280573 020__ $$a0394580281 000280573 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm51223558 000280573 035__ $$a280573 000280573 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dWSL 000280573 042__ $$apcc 000280573 043__ $$ae-sp--- 000280573 049__ $$aISEA 000280573 05000 $$aN7113.G68$$bH83 2003 000280573 08200 $$a760/.092$$aB$$221 000280573 1001_ $$aHughes, Robert,$$d1938-2012. 000280573 24510 $$aGoya /$$cRobert Hughes. 000280573 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$c2003. 000280573 300__ $$ax, 429 p. :$$bill. (chiefly col.) ;$$c24 cm. 000280573 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [409]-413) and index. 000280573 520__ $$aPublisher's description: Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint), now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art history's most compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco Jos ̌de Goya y Lucientes. With characteristic critical fervor and sure-eyed insight, Hughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns. With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goya's development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life. In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya's work. Underlying the exhaustive, critical analysis and the rich historical background is Hughes's own intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent experiences of mortality and death. As such this is a uniquely moving and human book; with the same relentless and fearless intelligence he has brought to every subject he has ever tackled, Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death. This is one genius writing at full capacity about another₇and the result is truly spectacular. 000280573 60010 $$aGoya, Francisco,$$d1746-1828. 000280573 60010 $$aGoya, Francisco,$$d1746-1828$$xCriticism and interpretation. 000280573 650_0 $$aArtists$$zSpain$$vBiography. 000280573 7001_ $$aGoya, Francisco,$$d1746-1828. 000280573 85200 $$bgen$$hN7113.G68$$iH83$$i2003 000280573 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0414/2002043281.html 000280573 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:280573$$pGLOBAL_SET 000280573 980__ $$aBIB 000280573 980__ $$aBOOK 000280573 994__ $$aC0$$bISE