Volume 36, Number 11 · June 29, 1989
The Liberal Goya
By Robert Hughes
Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment 9–July 16, 1989).
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (May
Goya and the Spirit of Enlightenment
catalog of the exhibition by Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, by Eleanor A. Sayre
Musuem of Fine Arts, Boston, 407 pp., $35.00
I think most of us would agree that the Goya exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum is the most powerful show in town. We can say this even though it doesn't give us the whole Goya. We can feel it because he speaks to us with an urgency that no artist of our time can muster. We see his long-dead face pressed against the glass of our terrible century, Goya looking in at a time worse than his.
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