Michael Bird

British art historian

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Born: April 12, 1958
Birthplace: London
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Occupation: art historian
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Education: Merton College

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Michael Bird is a British author and art historian. He was born in London and educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Merton College, Oxford. After teaching at Sherborne School he worked in publishing, including a stint on the editorial team of the Macmillan Dictionary of Art. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Bird published poetry, essays and reviews. His books on modern British art include monographs on the artists Sandra Blow (2005), Bryan Wynter (2010), Lynn Chadwick (2014) and George Fullard (2017),The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time and Studio Voices: Art and Life in 20th-century Britain (2018). He has also written a history of art for children, Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories (2016).

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