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Article: Things I Didn't Know.(Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir)(Book review)
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- January 1, 2007
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Things I Didn't Know
A Memoir
By Robert Hughes
The education of an art critic.
Robert Hughes--a Time magazine art critic, biographer, documentary maker, historian, and author of The Shock of the New (1981), The Fatal Shore (1987), and Goya (EXCELLENT Mar/Apr 2004)--offers an untraditional perspective on his 60-something years. He opens with his near-fatal car accident in 1999 in his native Australia; he then travels back in time to his childhood relationship with his father (a hero in World War I), his Catholic education, his rocky marriages, and, most importantly, the influences behind his extraordinary career. Although ...