The Fatal Shore

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Knopf, 1987 - 688 páginas
A riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. The epic story of a jail that became a flourishing nation, by the author of The Shock of the New. 16 pages of halftones.

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The Harbor and the Exiles I
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A Horse Foaled by an Acorn
19
The Geographical Unconscious
43
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Robert Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia on July 28, 1938. He studied art and architecture at the University of Sydney. He pursued art criticism mostly as a sideline while painting, writing poetry and serving as a cartoonist for the weekly intellectual journal The Observer. He left Australia and spent time in Italy before settling in London, where he became a well-known critical voice and wrote for several newspapers. He was chief art critic for Time magazine for over 30 years. He wrote several books including The Fatal Shore, American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America, Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America, Things I Didn't Know, and Rome. He also hosted an eight-part documentary about the development of modernism from the Impressionists through Warhol entitled The Shock of the New. It was seen by more than 25 million viewers when it ran first on BBC and then on PBS. He also wrote a book by the same name about the series. He died after a long illness on August 6, 2012 at the age of 74.

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