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Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, AO est un écrivain et historien d'art d'origine australienne ayant vécu aux États-Unis. Wikipedia

✵ 28. juillet 1938 – 6. août 2012

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“vaste réceptacle Cette Botany-Bay, sentine d’ALBION”

Robert Hughes livre The Fatal Shore

The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

Robert Hughes: Citations en anglais

“I managed to fail Arts I, a course that a moderately intelligent amoeba could have passed without special coaching.”

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Things I Didn't Know (2006)

“If the making of the series had one repeated phrase that still echoes in my head, it was not heard on the soundtrack; the inexorable voice of Lorna Pegram, the producer, muttering: "It's a clever argument, Bob dear, but what are we supposed to be looking at?"”

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Source: The Shock of the New (1981), p. 7

“There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.”

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New York Review of Books, 27 Oct 1983

“I realized that there is nothing whatever outside of the life we have; that the "meaning of life" is nothing other than life itself, obstinately asserting itself against emptiness and nullity.”

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Things I Didn't Know (2006)

“…what has become my frequent prayer since I have had to face death -"Thy holy will, O Lord, not mine be done!"”

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Things I Didn't Know (2006)

“The sense of not having the whole story that comes from living close up to traumatic events.”

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"R.B. Kitaj" (1981)
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)

“In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.”

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"Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny"
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)