{"product_id":"9781925501247","title":"Culture at Crisis Point","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Giles Auty was one of only four outstanding art critics in Britain in the past forty years” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Paul Johnson , The Spectator, February 17, 1996\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I switched course in mid-career from being a painter to a writer I certainly experienced a few nervous moments. Would I ever feel as confident about writing as I did with a paintbrush in my hands? Then purely by chance, after years of wondering, I met an Italian Professor of English at a cocktail party in Venice. “I can’t believe I’ve met you” he told me “because I am always holding your writing up as a model for my students.” How thrilled my late father, a noted English scholar himself, would have been to know that I was at least trying to maintain family standards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“G. K. Chesterton surely had essays such as these in mind when he wrote, ‘No criticism of Rembrandt is as good as Rembrandt; but it can be so written as to make a man go back and look at his pictures.’ Giles Auty, well-known as art critic and painter, is gifted with a writing style that shuns impenetrability. It challenges us to go back and take a fresh look, not just at Rembrandt, or Signorelli, but at political correctness, global warming, post-modernism, democracy, our education system, Catholicism, the media, and life itself. He does this in an entertaining way, and even dares to suggest answers.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-- Fr Paul Stenhouse, Editor of Annals Australia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056867524848,"sku":"9781925501247","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925501247_p0.jpg?v=1763636512","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925501247","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}