Ian Dunlop
Ian Dunlop is a writer and art critic. He began writing art reviews for the London Times before joining the Evening Standard to become their art critic. In 1965 he wrote the introduction and notes to a landmark exhibition on young British sculptors at the Whitechapel Gallery, The New Generation: 1965. His first book, the prize winning The Shock of the New, about seven historic exhibitions of modern art, was published in 1972. It was followed by books on Van Gogh (1974), Edvard Munch (1977) and Degas (1979). He has written books and articles on contemporary American and British artists and has contributed reviews to Studio International, Apollo, The Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, the Oxford Companion to Western Art and other publications.
He has also written about golf and in 2008 he published an account of his golf travels with three American friends, Golf with the Breakfast Boys. In 2016 he published his first collection of poems, The Urban Fox. This has been followed by a second edition with additional poems published 2019.
Ian Dunlop was born in Edinburgh and now lives in London.
Contact: mail@iandunlop.com
Works
- 2016 The Urban Fox, published by Paekariki Press, Walthamstow, 2016.
- 2001 Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Brigstocke, entry on Exhibitions. Published by Oxford University Press.
- 1999 Golf, by Bernard Darwin. Foreword by Ian Dunlop, reprinted of original 1954 edition by Ailsa Inc.
- 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.
- 1979 Degas, published by Harper & Row and Phaidon
- 1977 Edvard Munch, published by Thames and Hudson
- 1973 Van Gogh, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- 1972 Cezanne Introduction to the English edition of The Complete Paintings of Cezanne, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- 1972 The Shock of the New, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- 1971 Proust and Painting Proust 1871-1922, a Centennial Volume, edited by Peter Quennel, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- 1965 The New Generation: 1965 introduction and notes to an exhibition of nine British sculptors at the Whitechapel Gallery, London
- — Contributed to a number of journals and art magazines, including: The Dubliner, Apollo, Studio International, Connoisseur, Books and Bookmen and The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent on Sunday and The Times.
