I was really saddened to read Robert Hughes passed away. I always like his hard hitting, thought provoking art criticism (American Visions, The Shock of the New and Goya). I often strongly disagreed with him but I liked reading him so much I would soldier on. And when I agreed with him it was fantastic. He slammed a good bit of modern art and champions Philip Guston. In the Robert Crumb he called Crumb “the American Bruegel.” Wow!
I like this quote of his on the art market. “If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one’s sense of literature – the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture.”
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