MacCarthy, Fiona
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Name (Latin)
MacCarthy, Fiona
Other forms of name
Mellor, Fiona MacCarthy
Date of birth
1940-01-23
Date of death
2020-02-29
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Art
Biography
Civilization--History
Design
History
Journalism
Occupation
Art historians
Art museum curators
Authors
Biographers
Historians
Journalists
Art critics
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
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Sources of Information
- Anarchy & beauty, 2014:page 165 (Fiona MacCarthy, curator)
- Guardian WWW site, viewed March 4, 2020(Fiona MacCarthy, biographer and journalist, born 23 January 1940; died 29 February 2020. MacCarthy curated exhibitions for the Crafts Council, the V&A, Sheffield Museum and the National Portrait Gallery)
- Wikipedia, June 27, 2016(Fiona MacCarthy; Fiona MacCarthy, OBE (born 23 January 1940) is a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th and 20th century art and design; in 1966 she married the Sheffield-based silversmith and cutlery designer David Mellor; se began her career on The Guardian in the 1960s as a features writer and columnist before becoming a biographer and critic; she came to wider attention as a biographer with a once controversial study of the Roman Catholic craftsman and sculptor Eric Gill first published in 1989; MacCarthy is known for her arts essays and reviews, appearing regularly in The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and The New York Review of Books; she has contributed to TV and radio arts programmes)
- Author's All things bright and beautiful design in Britain ... 1972.
- William Morris, 1994:t.p. (Fiona MacCarthy) jkt. (authority on British 20th cent. visual arts; biographer)
Wikipedia description:
Fiona Caroline MacCarthy (23 January 1940 – 29 February 2020) was a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-century art and design.
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