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Read [Robert Hughes Book] ^ Goya Online * PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Goya An epic treatment of an artist who lived in difficult times and opened the way to modernism Robert J. Crawford Goya is one of the greatest artists who ever lived: a court artist for kings, he also observed not only the common people, but the state of his mind, in the process creating a series of masterpieces that entered completely new territories. I have been fascinated by his work for my entire life, and only now have I found a book that explores and interprets what he did in a way that really
| Title | : | Goya |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (905 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375711287 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
An epic treatment of an artist who lived in difficult times and opened the way to modernism Robert J. Crawford Goya is one of the greatest artists who ever lived: a court artist for kings, he also observed not only the common people, but the state of his mind, in the process creating a series of masterpieces that entered completely new territories. I have been fascinated by his work for my entire life, and only now have I found a book that explores and interprets what he did in a way that really speaks to me. Perhaps only Hughes could have d. TOTALLY AMAZING Honestly, totally amazing biography of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. I was looking for a good one and found this one. It sounded good, so VERY RELUCTANTLY and skeptically I purchased it. Mr. Hugues did a fantastic job putting this book together to tell us about Spain's most famous painter. I was raised in Spain and I am familiar with its people, its customs, different places, etcetera. In addition, having lived ther. The best in Goya Angeles Lagos A very good review of Goya's life and work. Very interesting, Mr. Hughes has a great knowlwdge of country and the histor y of Spain.
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. 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. 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 ev
In middle age he was struck deaf by an unidentifiable illness, at which point his pictures turned darker-a bullfighter gored before eager spectators, the inmates of a madhouse clamoring for respite. Under a picture of refugees fleeing the French, he inscribed, "I saw it." Whether or not this much debated act of witness really happened, for Hughes it is Goya's urgent visual economy that "invented the illusion of being there when dreadful things happen." Given his intimate understanding of the paint
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