![]() ![]() So perhaps when he settled in New York back in the early 70s, he found just the right place at the right time, at the height of the New York art scene, where he developed the opinionated, pugnacious wit which characterises his writing and TV style. ![]() Like Australia's other favourite public intellectuals, Robert Hughes is an ex-pat, whose near-fatal car crash here a few years ago exacerbated his already uncomfortable relationship with this country. In between, there was The Fatal Shore, Hughes's epic chronicle of the colonisation of Australia, plus his terrifically entertaining, polemical books of essays, Nothing if Not Critical, and a scathing attack on the decay of US culture titled The Culture of Complaint. ![]() Time magazine's art critic for over 30 years, he's also written a range of books, beginning with a history of Australian art, tributes to artists Lucien Freud and Goya, and to the city of Barcelona, plus books from his TV histories of modern art and of American art, Shock of the New and American Visions. Julie Copeland: Although he left Australia 40 years ago, Hughes is so well known here he hardly needs introduction. ![]()
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