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Barcelona : The Great Enchantress (National Geographic Directions) by Robert Hughes
25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
Rome by Robert Hughes
30.00 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: Non-fiction
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
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
65.00 NZD
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
Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes
28.00 NZD
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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