Record ID:
35917427 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 80076589
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1938-07-28
  • Sydney (N.S.W.)
Death:
  • 2012-08-06
  • New York (N.Y.)
Occupations:
  • Art critics
Used for:
  • Hughes, Robert, 1938-
  • Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest, 1938-2012
Notes:
  • Art critic and writer. Born in Sydney on 28 July 1938. Art critic and editor for the Sydney Observer 1958-59 and for Nation (Aust) 1960-64. Exhibited paintings in Sydney and Melbourne 1963. Senior art critic for Time Magazine since 1970. Hon. DFine Arts (N.Y.). Hon. Doctor of Letters (University of Melbourne).
  • Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Recent Australian painting, 1961.
  • His Frank Auerbach, 1990: jkt. (Robert Hughes; b. 1938)
  • WW in America, c1988: v. 1, p. 1500 (Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest; b. July 28, 1938; art critic)
  • LC manual auth. cd. : (hdg.: Hughes, Robert, 1936- ; p. [1] of his Art of Australia cites d. of b. 1938)
  • Tel. info. from CIP Off., Apr. 8, 1999 : (also auth. of A jerk on one end : reflections of a mediocre fisherman)
  • Magritte, ReneĢ. The portable Magritte, 2002: t.p. (Robert Hughes) cover, p. 4 (Robert Hughes, the celebrated author and art critic for Time magazine)
  • New York times WWW site, Aug. 7, 2012 : (in obituary published Aug. 6: Robert Hughes; Robert Studley Forrest Hughes; b. July 28, 1938, Sydney; d. Monday [Aug. 6, 2012], the Bronx, aged 74; eloquent, combative art critic and historian who lived with operatic flair and wrote with a sense of authority that owed more to Zola or Ruskin than to his own century)
  • Who's Who in Australia 2005.
  • Australian Broadcasting Commission website viewed 9 August 2012: Life dates 1938-2012 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-07/australian-critic-robert-hughes-dead/4181906
Local system number:
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX20302
  • 000000922791
  • abv01785941
  • 000000053026
  • abv04788549
  • 000035052745
Cataloguing source:
  • AIAS eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc