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Searching for Goya

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December 2003–January 2004, no. 257

Goya by Robert Hughes

Harvill Press, $69.95 hb, 439 pp

Searching for Goya

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December 2003–January 2004, no. 257

An appreciation of Goya, contends Robert Hughes, has become essential for Europeans wishing to make themselves literate in their own culture. Goya’s significance is heightened because his works are arguments for humanity, to be balanced against the horrors he depicted. Goya (1746–1828) indeed remains our contemporary. His life, his imagery and his dilemmas resonate at a time when countries are being invaded for their own good, as Europe was by Napoleon, provoking the first guerillas.

Goya

Goya

by Robert Hughes

Harvill Press, $69.95 hb, 439 pp

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