A Little Art Education
Lynn Barber
Journalist, writer, interviewer and memoirist Lynn Barber claims no skill in art herself but loves hanging out with artists - and has devoted much of her career to interviewing them.
Following the huge success of her memoir An Education, adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Carey Mulligan in 2009, A Little Art Education recalls the more recent chapters in Lynn Barber's fascinating life, fizzing with funny, insightful, and occasionally shocking stories from the epicentre of the art world and the great figures who inhabit it.
From the trials and tribulations of being a juror for the 2006 Turner Prize to dining at the Hotel Meurice with Salvador Dali's ocelot, and her enduring friendships with David Hockney and Tracey Emin, this beautifully illustrated book documents Lynn's unusual and inspiring journey from curious outsider to finding her place among some of the most admired artists of the last hundred years.
HARDBACK PUBLISHED ON: 23/05/24
£15
Praise for A Little Art Education
‘This book feels like a marvellous cocktail party, packed with the painters and sculptors Barber has interviewed over the years: … everyone, naturally, is smoking.’ Lisa Hilton, The Spectator
‘A Little Art Education [is a] highly entertaining celebration of the famous artists she has encountered over the course of a long and extremely successful career as a newspaper interviewer.’ John Maier, The Times, Saturday Review
‘These touches of sfumato are deliciously pointed, but what makes the book so engaging is Barber's undimmed enthusiasm for the adventure of looking … Barber loves artists for being artists, for committing their lives to the joy of others' eyes.’ Lisa Hilton, The Spectator
‘For my money, Barber, who turns 80 this month, is by some distance the best interviewer to have worked on Fleet Street.’ John Maier, The Times, Saturday Review
About the author
Lynn Barber was born in 1944 and studied English at the University of Oxford. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse, and progressed to the Independent on Sunday, the Observer, the Telegraph, and the Sunday Times, as well as Vanity Fair. She has won six British Press Awards and has two published two volumes of her celebrated interviews. An Education (2010), Lynn's memoir about her schoolgirl affair with a con-man, was made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2010, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby, starring Carey Mulligan. A Curious Career, published in May 2014, continued the story of her life as a journalist and interviewer. A Little Art Education documents her fascination with art and artists.