Goya By Robert Hughes Knoft 429 pages, $40 Robert Hughes had writer’s block. The famed Time magazine art critic had been trying to write a biography of the Spanish artist ...

Cultural critic Hughes (The Fatal Shore ) slices into his own life with his ever-ready scalpel of penetrating analysis, opening his saga in 1999 with his near-fatal car accident at age 60 in his ...

Nearly 20 years ago, Robert Hughes reflected on the head-on car accident that almost killed him: “It was through the accident that I came to know extreme pain, fear, and despair,” he wrote in the ...

Had Goya spent his career in any country but Spain, we would probably know a good deal more about him than we do. Spain in Goya’s time–he was born in 1746 and died in 1828–was as scary as any horror ...

When Jean-Paul Sartre thought about the Disasters of War, the Disparates and the so-called Black Paintings (Pinturas negras) of Goya's later years, he concluded that what Goya was really depicting was ...