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August 10, 2012
Robert Hughes, who died on Monday at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, will probably remembered more for his educational "The Shock of the New,” his eight-part documentary about the development of modernism from the Impressionists through Warhol, than his three decades for Time magazine as chief art critic. His emphasis is on judging individual works of art rather than artistic movements or even individual artists.
David Rowe
It stopped at modernism because Hughes was out of joint with postmodernism --he saw the movement as little more than image-scavengers and recyclers who infest the wretchedly stylish woods of an already decayed, pulped-out postmodernism. On the other hand, Hughes was critical of both the art market's impact on art (the art market became the art world at large) and those artists, such as Warhol, who cling to the market.
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