Julian Bell

Julian Bell is a painter and writer living in Lewes, England. He is the author of What Is Painting? and Mirror of the World: A New History of Art.
 (October 2009)

From the Review

October 22, 2009: The Elegant Optimist

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham

October 8, 2009: Why Art?

Art Without Borders: A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity by Ben-Ami Scharfstein

The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution by Denis Dutton

February 12, 2009: The Pleasure of Watteau

Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World by Jed Perl

October 23, 2008: Back to Basics

The Craftsman by Richard Sennett

March 6, 2008: The Way to All Flesh

Lucian Freud by William Feaver

Freud at Work: Lucian Freud in Conversation with Sebastian Smee by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson

Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, December 16, 2007–March 10, 2008.

October 11, 2007: The Golden Age at Its Best

Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals Catalog of the exhibition by Rudi Ekkart and Quentin Buvelot

The Rembrandt Book by Gary Schwartz

Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master's Portraits by Michael Taylor

May 10, 2007: The Cunning of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon in the 1950s catalog of the exhibition by Michael Peppiatt

Francis Bacon's Studio by Margarita Cappock

Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict by Wieland Schmied

Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester

In Camera: Francis Bacon: Photography, Film and the Practice of Painting by Martin Harrison

Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma by Michael Peppiatt

Francis Bacon: The Violence of the Real catalog of the 2006 Düsseldorf exhibition edited by Armin Zweite, with Maria Müller

October 19, 2006: British Art: The Showcase

School of Genius: A History of the Royal Academy of Arts by James Fenton

Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760–1791 by Matthew Hargraves