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082	1		_a92 GOY _2
100	1		_aHughes, Robert
245	1	0	_aGoya _c/ Robert Hughes
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, c2004.
300			_a429 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [409]-413) and index.
520			_aHughes brings us the story of an artist whose life and work bridged the transition from the eighteenth-century reign of the old masters to the early days of the nineteenth-century moderns. With his salient passion for the artist and the art, Hughes brings Goya vividly to life through dazzling analysis of a vast breadth of his work. Building upon the historical evidence that exists, Hughes tracks Goya's development, as man and artist, without missing a beat, from the early works commissioned by the Church, through his long, productive, and tempestuous career at court, to the darkly sinister and cryptic work he did at the end of his life. In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya's work.
546			_aEnglish.
600	1	4	_aGoya, Francisco _d(, 1746-1828 -- Criticism and interpretation.)
650		4	_aArtists _z-Spain _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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