Articles of ‘Robert Hughes’

Beyond Postmodernism. Putting a Face on Metamodernism Without the Easy Clichés

Beyond Postmodernism. Putting a Face on Metamodernism Without the Easy Clichés

By Stephen Knudsen
I will admit, as academia clamors to find some term for “whatever-we-call-coming-after” postmodernism, I long for the days of yore when the nomenclature took little effort. Often, names came as easy as quips: Malevich meant no compliment when he easily coined “construction art” to describe the work of Alexander Rodchenko. Then [...]



Robert Hughes. The Death of a Legendary Art Critic

Robert Hughes. The Death of a Legendary Art Critic

By Stephen Knudsen
I was at Lois Dodd’s 60-year retrospective at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art the August day I got the news that critic Robert Hughes had passed away at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx, New York. To get this news amidst paintings in a museum was like being in the sanctum [...]