Giles Auty Giles Auty i(A64751 works by)
Born: Established: Kent,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1995
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1 y separately published work icon Culture at Crisis Point Giles Auty , Redland Bay : Connor Court Publishing , 2016 11629364 2016 single work autobiography

'“Giles Auty was one of only four outstanding art critics in Britain in the past forty years” 
-- Paul Johnson , The Spectator,  February 17, 1996

'When 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.

'“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.” -- Fr Paul Stenhouse, Editor of Annals Australia' (Publication summary)

1 Poetic Claims Miss Genius of a Moment Giles Auty , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 August 2007; (p. 9)

— Review of Nolan on Nolan : Sidney Nolan in His Own Words Sidney Nolan , 2007 selected work poetry correspondence diary prose interview
1 Spoilt Rich Kid Giles Auty , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 November 2001; (p. 5)

— Review of Letters of John Reed : Defining Australian Cultural Life 1920-1981 John Reed , 2001 selected work correspondence autobiography
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