In one essay, this man complained about contemporary artist who lacked skills by using his own experience as a carpenter to distinguish between good tables and bad tables.
In one essay, this man complained about contemporary artist who lacked skills by using his own experience as a carpenter to distinguish between good tables and bad tables. He opened a biography of Goya by recounting a nightmare where he was tormented by Goya's monsters following a car crash.  This critic addressed the "all-pervasive claim to victimhood" present in Americans in a screed against both politically correct language and the "cult of the abused Inner Child" rising from the Reagan years.  For his home country's bicentennial, this host of the (*) docuseries The Shock of the New wrote a history which rejected the "competing with the French" narrative in favor of a narrative that presents the First Settlement as a type of British Gulag.  For 10 points, name this Australian art critic for Time magazine who wrote Culture of Complaint and The Fatal Shore.
In one essay, this man complained about contemporary artist who lacked skills by using his own experience as a carpenter to distinguish between good tables and bad tables.
Robert Hughes [or Robert Studley Forrest Hughes] 