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Kelly Grovier is an American poet, historian, and art critic.


Background

Grovier was educated at the
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, where he received the school's Outstanding Senior of the Year Award upon graduation, and at
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, where he was a
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. He received his doctorate from Oxford in 2005 after writing a thesis on the eighteenth-century adventurer and philosopher,
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(1747–1822). He is a regular contributor on art and literature to the ''
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'' and co-founder of the scholarly journal '' European Romantic Review''. Grovier is the author of three collections of poetry, ''A lens in the palm'' (2008), ''The Sleepwalker at Sea'' (2011), and ''The Lantern Cage'' (2014), all published by Carcanet Press. On 19 September 2008, Grovier recorded a reading of his poems for the historic online
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. His poems frequently appear in literary journals, including ''
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'', '' P. N. Review'', '' Poetry London'', ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Quadrant'', and ''Stand'', and have been anthologized in the ''Forward Books of Poetry'', as well as ''The Best British Poetry'', edited by
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. Reviewers of his work have variously described him as "a poet of both truth and beauty" (''
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'', 30 March 2012) and "a sort of William Blake for the twenty-first century" (''
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'', Autumn 2008). In the field of literary criticism, Grovier has written widely on the British Romantic poets, especially
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,
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, and John Keats. In a review of an edition of William Godwin's early letters, published in the ''TLS'' in March 2012, Grovier explored connections in Coleridge's poem ''
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'' (1797–98) with the life and
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thought of Walking Stewart, and proposed that Stewart was likely the real-life prototype for Coleridge's iconic wanderer. His narrative history of London's notorious Newgate Prison, ''The Gaol'', was published in July 2008 and was broadcast by
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as
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from 14–18 July. The abridgement was read by the classical stage actor Jasper Britton. ''The Gaol'' was "Pick of the Week" for both the '' Radio Times'' (14 July) and
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(20 July), and "Pick of the Day" for ''
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'' (12 July). Grovier's art and literary reviews have appeared in ''
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'' and the ''
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'', to which he frequently contributes. In an article appearing in the ''TLS'' on 8 June 2012, Grovier revealed parallels in the design of Michelangelo's ceiling
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for the
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with both the performance structure and composition of the celebrated
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polyphonic work, the '' Miserere mei''. He suggested that the latter work was carefully crafted as a "soundtrack" to the former, and that the two, experienced together, were intended to comprise a single artistic whole. Grovier has written extensively on leading contemporary artists, notably the
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abstract painter
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and the American painter
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. Grovier's articles on
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are often preoccupied with situating the visual achievement of the artist concerned in its broader literary and cultural context. In an article on Twombly's 2009 exhibition ''The Rose'' (''TLS'', 1 May 2009), he coined the term "synphrasis" (from the
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, meaning "speaking with", "uttering together") to describe the merging of visual and verbal art into a single work (for example, Twombly's incorporating lines of verse from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke's poem ''Les Roses'' (1924) onto the surface of his paintings, so that word and image become one) - a term which has subsequently been adopted into
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studies. Grovier's survey of
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, ''100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age'', is published by Thames & Hudson press in the UK, Thames & Hudson/ W. W. Norton & Company in the United States, the Prestel imprint of
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publishers in Germany (under the title ''Art Will Write the Story: The 100 Most Important Works of Our Time''), and Ludion publishers in the Netherlands (under the title ''100 Masterpieces of Our Time''). The book goes in search of those works of art from 1989 to the present that have made the most enduring cultural and emotional impact. It features paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, performances, and video pieces from the era's most influential artists including
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,
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,
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,
Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...
,
Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum ( ar, منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, Hatoum ...
,
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,
Cy Twombly Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (; April 25, 1928July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Twombly is said to have influenced younger artists such as ...
, and
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. A subsequent overview, ''Art Since 1989'', was published in November 2015 as part of Thames & Hudson's World of Art series.


Works

* ''A lens in the palm'' (2008) Carcanet Press, Oxford Poets * ''The Gaol: The Story of Newgate – London's most notorious prison'' (2009) John Murray (publisher),
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* ''The Sleepwalker at Sea'' (2011) Carcanet Press, Oxford Poets * ''Scully: Luz Del Sur'' (2012), catalogue text, TF Editores * ''Sean Scully: Doric'' (2012), catalogue text, Oliver Wood * ''Liliane Tomasko: Vestige'' (September 2013), catalogue text, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London * ''100 Works of Art That Will Define Our Age'' (September 2013 UK; November 2013 U.S.) Thames & Hudson (publisher), * ''Sean Scully Encounters: A New Master Among Old Masters'' (May 2014), catalogue text in verse, Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford University * ''The Lantern Cage'' (2014) Carcanet Press, Oxford Poets * ''Art Since 1989'' (World of Art series) (2015) Thames & Hudson (publisher) * ''A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works'' (2019) Thames & Hudson


References

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