Farewell Robert Hughes - critic, raconteur, fisherman, shooter, historian, memoirist

By Damien Murphy
Updated August 9 2012 - 12:08pm, first published 11:29am
Robert Hughes at the 1997 Sydney launch of his book <i>The Fatal Shore</i>.
Robert Hughes at the 1997 Sydney launch of his book <i>The Fatal Shore</i>.
Robert Hughes with former PM Gough Whitlam at the launch of <i>The Fatal Shore</i> in 1987.
Robert Hughes with former PM Gough Whitlam at the launch of <i>The Fatal Shore</i> in 1987.

IN THE American century the art critic Robert Hughes was the first Australian to turn from England and take Manhattan.

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