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Peter Watson

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born

January 01, 1943

gender

male

website

http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/projects/iarc/inf...

genre

History of Ideas, Arts, Science

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Education: educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome.

Deputy editor of New Society.

Part of the 'Insight' team of The Sunday Times for four years.

New York correspondent of The Times.

Has written for the Observer, The New York Times, Punch and The Spectator.

Author of thirteen books.

Presented several television programs about the arts.

Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, at the University of Cambridge since 1998.

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Books by Peter Watson

Average rating: 3.97 · 788 ratings · 133 reviews · 40 distinct works

	The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century 4.22 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud 4.30 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums by Peter Watson, Cecilia Todeschini 3.57 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Landscape of Lies 3.71 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century 4.05 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Terrible Beauty 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Sotheby's: The Inside Story 3.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Caravaggio Conspiracy 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Capo 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nureyev: A Biography 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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“One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been.”
― Peter Watson, A Terrible Beauty

tags: audience , innovation , modernism

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