Ian Dunlop (born 1940) is a Scottish writer and former art critic for the ''

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''. His first book, ''

The Shock of the New ''The Shock of the New'' is an eight-part documentary television series about the development of modern art written and presented in 1980 by Australian art critic Robert Hughes for the BBC, in association with Time-Life Films. Hughes also wrote ...

'', about seven historic exhibitions of modern art, was published in 1972. It was followed by books on

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, and on the life and art of

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(1979). He has also written books and articles on contemporary American and British art and contributed reviews and art criticism to ''

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'', ''

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,'' and ''

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''. Dunlop was born in

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, the eldest son of Commander Frederick Hamilton Dunlop, R.N., and the grandson of Sir Thomas Charles Dunlop of Doonside (1878–1960), sportsman, printer, and publisher of the ''Ayr Advertiser''. He was educated at

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and then

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, where he read Mental and Moral Science. He now lives in

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. In 2016, he published ''The Urban Fox'', his first collection of poems. Besides writing, Dunlop has worked as an art expert for

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, New York, and was Head of Contemporary Art for a while. He also worked as an art dealer and was a founder member of the Artis Group.

Works

1965 ''The New Generation'': 1965 introduction and notes to an exhibition of nine British sculptors at the Whitechapel Gallery, London 1971 ''Proust and Painting Proust 1871-1922'', a Centennial Volume, edited by Peter Quennel, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1972 ''Cezanne'' Introduction to the English edition of ''The Complete Paintings of Cezanne'', published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ''The Shock of the New'', published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1973 ''Van Gogh'', published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1977 ''Edvard Munch'', published by Thames and Hudson Contributed to several journals and art magazines, including ''The Dubliner, Apollo, Studio International, Connoisseur, Books and Bookmen, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent on Sunday, and The Times.'' 1979 ''Degas'', published by Harper & Row and Phaidon 1987 ''Donald Sultan'' with Lynne Warren, catalogue introduction to an exhibition organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Published by Harry N Abrams. 1999 ''Golf'', by Bernard Darwin. Foreword by Ian Dunlop, reprinted from the original 1954 edition by Ailsa Inc. 2001 ''Oxford Companion to Western Art'', ed. Brigstocke, entry on Exhibitions. Published by Oxford University Press. 2016 ''The Urban Fox'', published by Paekariki Press, Walthamstow, 2016.

References

External links

* http://www.spectator.co.uk/author/ian-dunlop/ * http://www.theoldie.co.uk/article/happy-straddling-of-science-and-art * http://paekakarikipress.com/?content=events.php * http://www.worldcat.org/title/degas/oclc/907582935&referer=brief_results {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunlop, Ian Writers from Edinburgh Living people Date of birth missing (living people) People educated at Eton College 1940 births Art writers Scottish art critics Scottish male poets 21st-century Scottish poets 21st-century British male writers 20th-century Scottish writers