About the Author

Andrew Graham-Dixon is writer and presenter of the BBC television series Renaissance. He was chief art critic at the Independent between 1986 and 1998. In the 1980s, he won the BP Arts Journalism Award three years running and, in 1991, the Hawthornden Prize for art criticism. His other books include the bestselling A History of British Art and a highly acclaimed monograph on Howard Hodgkin (1994). Paper Museum, a collection of his writings from , was published in 1996.

Reviews

"Brilliant . . . The line between education and entertainment was not so much blurred as obliterated."--Roy Hattersley, "Daily Express