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 ...

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 ...

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 papers, 1952-2012. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal ...