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Revised for the paperback edition - a dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better' EVENING STANDARD.

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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 the origin of Australia.

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A generous selection of forthright essays on art and artists. Hughes tackles the lives and works of over 80 artists, from the old masters to our contemporaries, exploring their achievement (or lack of it) and how they altered the history of art for better or worse.

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The opening lengthy chapter is a brutal and brilliant description of the terrible WA car accident several years ago that nearly took Hughes' life and left him physically and mentally shattered. In this beautifully written and searingly honest opening he makes you understand the trauma of devastating physical damage.

(Paperback, Updated and enlarged edition)

An illustrated 100-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard.

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A modern homage to a proud, cosmopolitan city, where geniuses like Picasso and Miro learned how to break the rules. Robert Hughes takes us down the Ramblas through the "intestinal windings" of the ancient gothic quarter, past the bountiful Boqueria market to the Eixample.