The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

by Robert Hughes

Book Overview

"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails . . . I don't think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones. I would...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400044456
• ISBN13: 9781400044450
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"