Robert Hughes, the author of The Fatal Shore, is a highly controversial art critic in the United States. From sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, wit, and authority at a wide range of artworks and artists, Robert Hughes has been regarded as one of the few great critics of our times by secularizing the idols, rebelling against orthodoxy, as well as being enthusiastic and knowledgeable. In this review collection, Hughes puts forward an uncompromising view against all kinds of artists, such as Holbein and Hockney, John Singer Sargent and Francis Bacon, Rockwell and Picasso, Watteau and Warhol, etc. Hughes’s essays sparkle with wit and humor in a lively, expressivemanner. With nearly 100 outstanding essays, he arouses and defines a series of artists' world, works, and nature, and makes it known to us. In addition, he dares to expose face the proposition of art and money