About the Author:
Julian Spalding is a full-time consultant, writer and broadcaster. He has served as director of numerous museums in Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow and as a consultant for museums and museum associations in Holland, Denmark, Russia, Germany, Canada, Italy and Australia. Spalding is Master of the Guild of St. George, the educational charity founded by John Ruskin. He is the author of several books, including The Poetic Museum and The Eclipse of Art (both by Prestel). He lives in Edinburgh.
Review:
"... a smart jolt to our jaded conventions of what art is and how we see it." -- Array, February 2006
"...A book whose time was long overdue. A must for those seeking to get all they can ... from art." -- Art Times, December 2005
"Breathtaking in its breadth and fascinating for its enormous store of details... Spalding sees beyond the local and historical bases". -- Midwest Book Review, February 2006
"Gives a provocative tour through art history and places masterpieces of art in the context from which they were created." -- Michael Dresser Show, July 2005
"If you wanted to teach someone to look at art without preconceived notions, this would be the book to choose." -- Courier-Gazette, May 2006
"It does for art what Stephen Hawking’s book "A Brief History of Time" did for science ... a throughly good read" -- Washington Daily News, November 2005
"Provocative points and interesting comparisons are mage." -- Choice, June 2006
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