Culture of Complaint (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Hughes
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Sexism, Art or artists, Feminism, Criticism, Idealism, Joy or sorrow
Robert Hughes’s new book is engaging, quotably witty, never dull; it can easily be read in an evening. As an analysis of what divides Americans, it is less than satisfactory, symptomatic of the moral confusion that it purports to anatomize.
Born in Australia but long resident in the United States, Hughes has been the art critic for Time magazine since 1970 and has written more than half a dozen books of criticism and art history. In addition, he is the author of The Fatal Shore (1987), a history of the early colonial period in Australia, and Barcelona...
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