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The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
38.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories
" 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 wor ...Show more
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
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
Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir by Robert Hughes
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his experiences the way he might examine a Van Gogh or a Picasso. From his relat ...Show more