JOHN-PAUL STONARD

JOHN-PAUL STONARD is an author and art historian. His bestselling book, The Worst Exhibition in the World. Degenerate Art 1937, was published by Old Street Publishing in May 2026. His previous books include the Sunday Times Art Book of the year Creation. Art Since the Beginning, published by Bloomsbury in 2021 and a history of the art collection at Chatsworth House, Chatsworth, Arcadia, Now, published by Penguin Books the same year. Earlier books include (as editor and contributor) The Books that Shaped Art History, and the catalogues to the exhibitions which he co-curated, Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation (Tate, 2014), and Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation (British Museum 2014). His first book Fault Lines: Art in Germany 1945-55 was published by Ridinghouse Press in 2007. Stonard’s writing appears in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, and as a monthly leader column for The Art Newspaper. He trained as a painter, before studying art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He lives and works as an artist and writer in Yoxford, Suffolk.