Goya(ISBN=) 英文原版

Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on
subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The
Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the
nature of American art (American Visions), and the nature of
America itself as seen through its art (The Culture of Complaint),
now turns his renowned critical eye to one of art history’s most
compelling, enigmatic, and important figures, Francisco José de
Goya y Lucientes. 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.
    With his salient passion for the artist and the
art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis
of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical
evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goya’s development, as man and
artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned
by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career
at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end
of his life.
     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.
     Underlying the exhaustive, critical
analysis and the rich historical background is Hughes’s own
intimately personal relationship to his subject. This is a book
informed not only by lifelong love and study, but by his own recent
experiences of mortality and death. 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 ever tackled,
Hughes here transcends biography to bring us a rich and fiercely
brave book about art and life, love and rage, impotence and death.
This is one genius writing at full capacity about another—and the
result is truly spectacular.

Acknowledgments
I Driving into Goya
2  Goya’S B eginnings
3  Coming to the City
4  From’lhpestry to Silence
5  Witches and Angel s
6  The Caprich0．f
7  The Fall of the Bourbons
8  War with Napoleon
9  The Restoration
IO  Exile in France
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