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Barcelona by Robert Hughes
45.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: National Geographic Directions Ser.
Hughes distills his encyclopaedic knowledge of Barcelona into a work with all the essential information. The text describes the city's remarkable culture and history.
Barcelona : The Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions) by Robert Hughes
24.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In < i> Barcelona the Great Enchantress, < /i> Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metr ...Show more
Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
34.99 NZD
Category: History
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia; An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more
Goya by Robert Hughes
45.00 NZD
49.95 (9% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain is Hughes' own first encounter with the artist's work when he was a student in Australia. The remainder of the book charts the artist's entire career, describing his painted and graphic oeuvre within its historial context. Part ...Show more
Goya by Robert Hughes
64.95 NZD
Category: Fine Art
A subtle, insightful and lively biography of one of Europe's greatest artists, by one of the world's foremost living commentators on cultural history and the visual arts who is also a passionate admirer of all things Spanish. The starting point of this journey through Goya's life in 18th-century Spain i ...Show more
Lucian Freud Paintings by Robert Hughes
39.95 NZD
Category: Fine Art
The critic Robert Hughes describes Lucian Freud's quest for a reality beyond naturalism, which has produced some of the most powerful and moving paintings - particularly portraits - of recent decades. Hughes is also author of "The Shock of the New", the book of the television series.
Rome by Robert Hughes
29.99 NZD
Category: History
For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates the ancient Rome of Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius, Nero, Caligula, Cicero, Martial and Virgil. With the artistic blossoming of the Renaissance, he casts his unwavering critical eye ov ...Show more
Rome - A Cultural History by Robert Hughes
60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life thinking and writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and ...Show more
Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History by Robert Hughes
35.00 NZD
Category: History
From Robert Hughes, one of the greatest art and cultural critics of our time, comes a sprawling, comprehensive, and deeply personal history of Rome--as a city, as an empire, and as an origin of Western art and civilization. Starting on a personal note, Hughes takes us to the Rome he first encountered a ...Show more
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
34.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was ...Show more