John Walford
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| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Art Historian |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I am a British-born, retired art historian, who taught in the USA; I studied law, in England,1964-68; worked part-time in the art world, 1968-69; then studied art history at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1969-76; completed my Ph.D. diss. at the University of Cambridge, 1981; moved to the States in 1981, and have since written, or co-authored, other books. My wife, Maria, was born in Milan, Italy, where she worked as an interpreter, in business; she spent seven years in Switzerland, at the University of Lausanne, 1963-70. She came to Amsterdam in 1971, and we soon married. She is a wife, mother, literary critic, of Italian (and French) literature, and completed her Ph. D. diss. in 2002, at the University of Chicago, on Cesare Pavese and His Critics. We have three married children, and twelve grandchildren, all of whom we excessively adore! I welcome dialog about art, photography, human behavior, beliefs, and motivation from all comers, regardless of race, color, gender, orientation, values, or beliefs. This is to be a site for words and images, as vehicles of human expression, around topics of mutual interest. |
| Interests | Photography, see http://flickr.com/photos/walford/, visual art of all times and places, people of all races and class, inter-cultural exchange and friendships, travel--especially Italy, England, and the Continent of Europe, cultural history, landscape gardening, trees, the countryside, urban culture, art museums, being with my family, and with close friends over a long meal, rich conversation, much laughter. I like to take the gravity out of the situation, tease and jest, yet engage the deepest questions of life. Oh! and yes you guessed it--photography! I also belong to a self-proclaimed, new art movement, called "Eye de-light" - a photographic vision and a phrase masterfully coined by "algo" (see his profile: http://www.flickr.com/people/algo/ ) |