Jonathan Jones



Profile:


Full name: Jonathan Jones

Area of interest: Visual Arts, Painting

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:jonathan22@btinternet.com jonathan22@btinternet.com]

Websites: Guardian.co / Jonathan Jones; Jones on art

Blogs: the blog Jonathan Jones; theatre & performing arts Jonathan Jones

Agent: Greene & Heaton

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Biography:
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Career: joined The Guardian in 1999 Current position/role: Visual arts writer


 * also writes for frieze and other art magazines

Other roles: will be on the jury for the 2009 Turner prize

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Viewpoints/Insight: Lost in a labyrinth of theory The Guardian, 23rd March 2005; Do we really live in a non-visual age? The Guardian, 12th June 2007

TV/Radio: appeared in BBC2 Television documentary series The Private Life of a Masterpiece

Controversy/Criticism: Has been criticized as "Eurocentric" see: Decolonising Persian History by Touraj Daryaee

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Books & Debate:

 * The lost battles: Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo at the gates of hell OCLC 81453129, 2007

Latest work: writing a book on the seductive art of Thomas Gainsborough

Speaking/Appearances: regular talks at Tate Modern, including a series called 'Painting Bites Back'

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The Guardian:

 * writes Jones on art series and the blog Jonathan Jones and articles for the Arts section

Column remit: Visual Arts, Painting

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Role: Visual Arts writer

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Email: [mailto:jonathan22@btinternet.com jonathan22@btinternet.com]

Website: Guardian.co / Jonathan Jones; Jones on art

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Articles:

 * giant awakes'' - American art came of age during the cold war. How did the East respond? With paintings of tractors - 18th September 2008
 * mind on fire'' - Francis Bacon always said he worked entirely by chance. Images found in his studio - from plucked chickens to close-ups of skin diseases - show that this was far from the case - 6th September 2008
 * The British Museum deserves to be popular - But director Neil MacGregor should remember: the language of populism is crude, and the pleasures of museums subtle - Comment is free - 2nd July 2008
 * Off the wall - The history of art and power has been haunted by tyrants stretching from Nero to Hitler. But was the most artistic of all Roman rulers that impossible thing, a despot with a heart? - 14th June 2008
 * What would Boris's artist mum say about his train booze ban? - 15th May 2008
 * My kingdom for a horse - This week five proposals were unveiled for the giant 'Angel of the South' sculpture. But one contender stands head and shoulders above the rest - 10th May 2008
 * Dazzling demons - The stars of Britain's first major Klimt show will be his glittering portraits. But his darker, lost works - destroyed by the Nazis - started a revolution in 20th-century art - 7th May 2008
 * Agent provocateur - The National Gallery's new boss is outspoken, defiantly high-brow and oozes learning. He is also the least pompous, most down-to-earth curator Jonathan Jones has met - 27th March 2008
 * The final insult - It is our greatest monument, on a par with the pyramids. But soon it will be plagued by Tesco juggernauts. Why don't we care about Stonehenge? - 5th March 2008
 * The curse of the blockbuster - Everybody loves a big show. But do Britain's huge exhibitions live up to the hype? - 28th February 2008
 * The new embraceable Britain - What's behind our sudden craving for big, bold works of public art? - 18th February 2008
 * If you only steal one masterpiece this year ... - 15th February 2008
 * A painting fit for a president - This is George Bush's favourite work of art. He says it's heroic and inspirational. But what does it say about him? - 1st February 2008
 * The shapes of things to come - Jonathan Jones on the Soviet art explosion that inspired the film's iconic poster - 1st February 2008
 * Lest we forget: the war blemish - Oliver Cromwell insisted artists portray him 'warts and all'; Jonathan Yeo portrays Tony Blair war and all - 19th January 2008
 * Why this is the most beautiful modern painting in the world - After a last-minute diplomatic drama, Matisse's Dance is eventually coming to Britain - for the first time. Jonathan Jones celebrates a great masterpiece and its role in the rivalry between the two giants of 20th-century art - 18th January 2008
 * The eternal city - Why did Larry Gagosian choose Rome for his latest gallery? It's part of the city's long tradition of wealth championing great art - 8th January 2008
 * The art - In the first decade of the 21st century modern art became a popular phenomenon - 2nd January 2008
 * This week's blog: 'Where's the art that counts?' - 20th December 2007
 * Art of the manager: what that £10m collection reveals - New England football manager Fabio Capello's taste in art analysed - 14th December 2007
 * Hidden horror - The Isenheim Altarpiece is a masterpiece of religious art. But you'll never see it on a Christmas card- 12th December 2007
 * Could Britain be on the verge of discovering a painted cave on a par with Lascaux in France?  - 6th December 2007
 * Who's buying these Old Moosters? - The truth is very few people really like art. This is the dirty secret that makes a living for artists such as Caroline Shotton. She is a new addition to that august company of artists who have careers, it seems, solely on the back of the joy the public takes in upsetting art critics, especially at Turner prize time - 3rd December 2007
 * Tomb raiders - The treasures of Tutankhamun are the finest artistic achievement of ancient times. Why on earth have they been desecrated with papier-mache pillars and Muzak? - 15th November 2007
 * The Post Office: stamping on Christianity's heritage - 7th November 2007
 * Heaven on Earth - Antoni Gaudí was a fervent Catholic whose fantastical buildings burst with colour, freedom and hedonism - is he the greatest urban architect of modern times? - 20th October 2007
 * The brilliant new exhibition Art and Sex raises the question: has art ever been about anything else? - 16th October 2007
 * The Turner is not about beauty. And Hirst's art isn't good. But it is great - 2nd October 2007
 * Mawkish masterpieces - Millais' lurid colours and trite rhetoric have been despised by critics for years. But underneath all that lies a startling emotional truth - 25th September 2007
 * Paradise regained - Jardins Publics aims to put a fresh perspective on Edinburgh's leafy spaces. But is the grass really greener? - 13th August 2007
 * Best of British? - Banksy is the most exciting artist to come out of the UK for more than a decade - or so many people on both sides of the Atlantic will tell you. But is he really so much more than a prankster with a spray can? - 5th July 2007
 * The Helmut Newton of the 1500s - Cranach understood the dirtiness of desire. That's what made him great - 28th June 2007
 * Riddle of the bog - A murder mystery preserved in peat is at the heart of the British Museum's revamped prehistoric galleries - 21st June 2007
 * Is this the birth of 21st-century art? - With his shimmering skull, birth paintings and bisected shark, Damien Hirst has redeemed himself - 5th June 2007
 * Beach Boy Brian Wilson is the inspiration for Tate St Ives' excellent new show of Californian art. But it's not all fun, fun, fun - 29th May 2007
 * Smoke and mirrors - The cult of the artist is celebrated in a new collection of self-portraits borrowed from the Uffizi. Does it matter that half are fakes or copies? Definitely not - 22nd May 2007
 * Food can be artistic - but it can never be art - 17th May 2007
 * This week's blog: 'Museums are for kids, too' - 17th May 2007
 * It's about knowing you'll die - Artists worked out that smoking represented death centuries before doctors did. That's why they love it so much - 14th May 2007
 * Annie Leibovitz - not just a flattering celebrity snapper - 3rd May 2007
 * Star spangled banners - It may be the worst decade in US history, but America's greatness is still reflected in its art - 1st May 2007
 * A sea change - Antony Gormley's modern nudes, who have now found a home on Crosby Beach, are Renaissance men helping to restate human dignity - 9th March 2007
 * Goya's true grandfather - Hogarth's image as a jolly satirist hides a radical genius that prefigured European modernism - 7th February 2007
 * Fresh out of ideas - The problem is not Damian Hirst's borrowing from others, but his own loss of originality - 25th October 2006
 * The Cook, the Tate, his waste and art lovers - The gallery was right to choose tinned excrement over fat ladies - 29th September 2006
 * Column five - Rolf's secret: the Mona Lisa effect - 20th December 2005
 * Brush with a revolutionary - You no longer have to be a conference delegate to view the great works of the artist James Barry - 12th December 2005
 * The place to fall in love - No other gallery can compete with the Musée Picasso for putting passion into modern art - 8th November 2005
 * A picture of poor taste - Vettriano is not an artist. His textureless, brainless corpses of paintings just happen to be popular - 5th October 2005
 * Dearth in Venice - The Biennale has no place in the city of Titian's greatest works, where artists invite comparison with genius - 10th June 2005
 * What the Middle Ages did for us - As the world slips back into cycles of holy war and revenge, the film Kingdom of Heaven suggests a solution - 10th May 2005
 * Blake's heaven - Only one British artist would make it on to a list of the world's all-time greatest - 25th April 2005
 * Admire the stage instead - Michelangelo's personality dominates every Vatican scene but his theology attracts less attention - 6th April 2005
 * Lost in a labyrinth of theory - Art today likes to think of itself as very, very clever. I understand the insecurity, but it does little for the work - 23rd March 2005
 * A Georgian invention - One universally accepted fact in the blood sports debate is a lie - that foxhunting has history on its side - 22nd November 2004
 * I'd rather open a boutique - Who is the BBC's new Culture Show for? Certainly not those who are genuinely passionate about art - 13th November 2004
 * Death of a legend - Strip the tale of King Arthur of its chivalry and sorcery and what is left is nothing sort of a national insult - 23rd August 2004
 * Dim, cloned conservatives - Modern graffiti is not subversive - it is a formulaic, bankrupt cliche - 7th August 2004
 * All the lonely people - The paintings of Edward Hopper evoke an emptiness that is still pervasive in American everyday life - 19th May 2004
 * Aborigines are wrong about Harry - The prince's art is ridiculous, but it derives from the modernist sublime - 20th August 2003
 * Take the ego out of art - Simon Rattle is right - Britain has a lot to learn from the high seriousness of Germany's cultural life - 26th August 2002



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