HEAVEN AND HELL IN WESTERN ART

by Robert Hughes ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1968

The young Australian art critic with a fast-growing reputation (articles in The Observer, The Spectator and The Sunday Times) elucidates the representation of Heaven and Hell in painting and sculpture from the 12th century to the present. The devil, for example, appears first as a beautiful fallen angel, is hideous by the Middle Ages, find finally becomes a comic pop figure.

Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Stein & Day

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1968

Categories: NONFICTION