The Wondrous Critic

Robert Hughes's excellence could not be contained in the relatively narrow, not to say paltry, confines of his stated profession. Seeking a broader and more ambitious context in which to display his abundant gifts, he became a respected historian of his native Australia, a polemicist against political correctness, a memorialist, and much besides. But the profession with which he began and ended, and by which he most defined himself, was that of a critic of painting and sculpture.
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