IN HIS exhaustive eight-part documentary series, “The Shock of the New”, Robert Hughes, speaking of the novelty that was a newly constructed Eiffel Tower, says: “What counted was not so much the view of the tower from the ground; it was seeing the ground from the tower.” Just as that new monument to modernity introduced as-yet-unseen perspectives to the Parisian, so too did Mr Hughes, a celebrated critic who died in New York on August 7th, aged 74, provide many with his own unique and candid perspective on the world of art and culture in the 20th century.
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