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Rome by Robert Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye ov ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
$55.00 AUD
Category: Art
A tour de force of writing on art This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modern ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Writing
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The opening lengthy chapter is a brutal and briliant description of the terrible WA car accident several years ago that nearly took his life and left him physically and mentally shattered. In this beautifully written and searingly honest opening, that could be a small book in itself, Hughes makes you un ...Show more
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