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Abomination by Robert Swindells; Ben Hughes (Designed by)
16.99 AUD
Category: Childrens | Series: The\Originals Ser.
"Martha is twelve - and very different from other kids, because of her parents. Strict members of a religious group - the Brethren - their rules dominate Martha's life. And one rule is the most important of all- she must never ever invite anyone home. If she does, their shameful secret - Abomination - c ...Show more
Barcelona by Hughes Robert
32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Panther Ser.
Focusing on the architectural foundations of this extraordinary city, Robert Hughes' account of Barcelona's growth in relation to the region of Catalunya also features political, economic and military drama.
Barcelona : The Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions) by Robert Hughes
19.95 AUD
Category: Travel
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
Journey to Armenia by Osip Mandelstam; Henry Gifford (Introduction by); Sidney Monas (Translator); Clarence Brown (Translator); Robert Hughes (Translator)
29.95 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
The last published work of a great poet who wrote a few lines attacking Stalin and was shortly thereafter exiled to Siberia where he died near Vladivostok six years later. An inimitable volume, Journey to Armenia is a travel book in name only. Osip Mandelstam visited Armenia in 1930, and during the ...Show more
Lucian Freud Paintings by Robert Hughes
39.95 AUD
Category: 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.
Making the Heavens Speak - Religion As Poetry by Peter Sloterdijk; Robert P. Hughes (Translator)
36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing, even if thi ...Show more
Rome by Robert Hughes
26.99 AUD
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
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | 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
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
60.00 AUD
Category: Art
A tour de force of writing on art This legendary book has been universally hailed as the best, the most readable and the most provocative account of modern art ever written. Through each of the thematic chapters Hughes keeps his story grounded in the history of the 20th century, demonstrating how modern ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
" I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it s an expert gardener at wor ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
79.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The opening lengthy chapter is a brutal and briliant description of the terrible WA car accident several years ago that nearly took his life and left him physically and mentally shattered. In this beautifully written and searingly honest opening, that could be a small book in itself, Hughes makes you un ...Show more
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