I guess many had over exuberant heads of hair in the 70s and 80s, but Robert Hughes coiffure really needed taming. Perhaps as (he claimed) Cubism was an attempt to draw the viewer into the picture, his hair, Medusa-like, was an attempt to draw the viewer into this series of essays and keep them there?
I watched only the first episode in this series. There's far too much verbiage and it also feels terribly subjective. I appreciate there is no way to produce a definitive chronicle of the period in question, but there was little breathing space to question what Robert Hughes was asserting. Which made me think at least some of his analysis was suspect.
It may be that investing 8 hours to watch the entire series will add value to a 21st century viewer's life but, after watching the first episode, I didn't feel I'd learned anything that I was confident was objectively true.
