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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While filming in Western Australia in May 1999, the critic Robert Hughes survived–barely–a head-on collision with another car. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

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 ...

Robert Hughes writes in his magisterial biography of Francisco de Goya that the visionary Spanish painter was “the last old Master and the first Modernist,” a view shared by this fascinating ...