American Visions
Book description
Writing with all the brilliance, authority, and pungent wit that have distinguished his art criticism for Time magazine and his greatly acclaimed study of modern art, The Shock of the New, Robert Hughes now addresses his largest subject: the history of art in America.
The intense relationship between the American…
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1 author picked American Visions as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It’s hard to praise this work too highly. It’s a lovely volume, lavishly illustrated. But what I like best about American Visions is Hughes’s singular voice.
Hughes's judgments are sure-footed and well-researched, and his tone is conversational. He is a guide you can rely on from the painters of the colonial period through the installations of the 1990s.
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