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22 Jul 2026 Conversations with Tyler Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists
“I’m a big fan of your book, A History of British Art. In that, you insightfully remark that a lot of English art earlier on was harder, more angular, and less obsessed with perspective.”
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- 22 Jul 2026
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…The church is left. It’s like theaters, but all of the actors have been killed. The stage set is left, but everything is gone, all the art, all the sculpture, all the stained glass. There’s a wonderful quote by one of my favorite historians, Lawrence Gowing. He said, “If you were to try to reconstruct the glories of British medieval art, it would be as if you would try to put together a diplodocus from half a tailbone and one tooth.” I’m a big fan of your book, A History of British Art. In that, you insightfully remark that a lot of English art earlier on was harder, more angular, and less obsessed with perspective. Have those traits carried down into English or British art of the 19th and 20th centuries, or even today? I’m a bit suspicious about identifying national traits. I’m not sure.…
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