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Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO was an Australian-born art critic, writer, and producer of television documentaries. His best seller The Fatal Shore is a study of the British penal colonies and early history of Australia. He was described in 1997 by Robert Boynton of The New York Times as "the most famous art critic in the world."Hughes earned widespread recognition for his book and television series on modern art, The Shock of the New, and for his longstanding position as art critic with TIME magazine. Known for his contentious critiques of art and artists, Hughes was generally conservative in his tastes, although he did not belong to a particular philosophical camp. His writing was noted for its power and elegance. Wikipedia

✵ 28. Juli 1938 – 6. August 2012

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“I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching.”

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Things I Didn't Know (2006)

“If the making of the series had one repeated phrase that still echoes in my head, it was not heard on the soundtrack; the inexorable voice of Lorna Pegram, the producer, muttering: "It's a clever argument, Bob dear, but what are we supposed to be looking at?"”

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Quelle: The Shock of the New (1981), p. 7

“There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.”

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New York Review of Books, 27 Oct 1983

“I realized that there is nothing whatever outside of the life we have; that the "meaning of life" is nothing other than life itself, obstinately asserting itself against emptiness and nullity.”

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Things I Didn't Know (2006)

“…what has become my frequent prayer since I have had to face death -"Thy holy will, O Lord, not mine be done!"”

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Things I Didn't Know (2006)

“The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.”

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"R.B. Kitaj" (1981)
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

“In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.”

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"Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny"
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

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