Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hughes, Robert, 1938-2012
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content: Robert Hughes papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2.05 Linear Feet (Box 1, 3-4, 23)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-2009
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hughrobe, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Writings include draft essays, articles, and manuscripts; lectures, speeches, and sound recordings of lectures including Hughes on Picasso and the 1974 Tom Albright lecture series; notes; notebooks including Hughes' research on the Chinese Opium Wars, Freud, Japan, and the MET; bibliographies; catalog introductions; a circa 2010 essay and outline on Rome; an annotated map of the Caribbean; and poetry written by Hughes. Many articles were published in TIME Magazine and included topics related to art theft and the art market, post-modern architecture, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Hughes' lectures included convocation and keynote speeches, Lee Krasner's obituary speech, and numerous talks given at exhibition openings, fundraisers, symposiums, and other art and literary events around the world.