John Golding CBE (10 September 1929 – 9 April 2012)[1] was a British artist, art scholar, and curator, perhaps best known for his seminal text Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914,[2] first published in 1959 and later revised in several subsequent editions.[3]
John Golding | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 September 1929 |
| Died | 9 April 2012 (aged 82) |
| Occupation(s) | British artist and art historian |
He taught "Art of the Modern Period" at the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1959 to 1981 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.[4] As a curator "he made his public mark with another Picasso scholar, Elizabeth Cowling, by curating two groundbreaking exhibitions at the Tate Gallery in London: Picasso: Sculptor/Painter, in 1994, and Matisse/Picasso, in 2002-03, which also travelled to the Grand Palais in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York."[1]
References
edit- ^ a b McNay, Michael (12 April 2012). "John Golding obituary | Art and design | The Guardian". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ John Golding, Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914, 1959 (full online version)
- ^ Fox, Margalit (19 April 2012). "John Golding Dies at 82; Zeroed In on Abstraction". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ Great Thinkers: Dawn Adès FBA on John Golding FBA, podcast, 2019
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