Robert Hughes, a giant of 20th-century art criticism who first became known in the U.S. through his reviews for Time magazine, has died at age 74.

The Australian writer was famous for writing big books on big subjects — from the early history of Australia (“The Fatal Shore” of 1987) to the pioneers of modern art (“The Shock of the New”

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