Grumpy Art Historian

Picture: Amazon James Hall The Self-Portrait: A cultural history Thames and Hudson 2014 £19.95 This magnificent book avoids the pit...

This Easter I avoided the crowds and curled up with my tottering pile of unread books. First installment is non-art; art reviews to follow ...

Picture: Courtauld A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany   to 27 April Courtauld Institute Gallery T...

We have a new Culture Secretary. I'm delighted Maria Miller has gone, though I was more outraged by her philistinism than her fraud. ...

Picture: MS Over the past couple of years I've been trying to see all of the drawings of Raphael.  So far I've seen around half...

Picture: Amazon Jonathan Israel  Revolutionary Ideas: An intellectual history of the French Revolution from  The Rights of Man  to Robes...

Picture: Amazon Angus Kennedy Being Cultured: In defence of discrimination Imprint Academic 2014 £14.95 Without discrimination - the...