John-Paul Stonard

J-P Stonard is an author and art historian. His book 'Creation. Art Since the Beginning' was published by Bloomsbury in 2021, and has been hailed as the successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled 'The Story of Art'.

Also published in 2021, J-P Stonard's book 'Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now', tells the story of the great collection of art at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire. His previous books include 'Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation', which accompanied an exhibition at the British Museum, London; and, as editor and contributor, 'The Books that Shaped Art History'. In 2014 he co-curated the exhibition 'Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation', at Tate Britain, London.

His writing has also appeared in The London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Burlington Magazine and Apollo.

J-P Stonard lives and works in Suffolk.