John-Paul Stonard trained as a painter before studying art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian and the Burlington Magazine, where he worked as an editor. He was a curator of the exhibition Kenneth Clark : Looking for Civilisation at Tate Britain in 2014. His books include Germany Divided : Baselitz and his Generation ; Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now ; and, as co-editor and contributor, The Books that Shaped Art History.
Over a period of four years he travelled widely to see the objects described in Creation, from Japan to Mexico, Cairo to Madrid, China to Moscow, writing the book as he went.
Over a period of four years he travelled widely to see the objects described in Creation, from Japan to Mexico, Cairo to Madrid, China to Moscow, writing the book as he went.