Ceramic, Art and Civilisation - Paul Greenhalgh

Greenhalgh, Paul: - Paul Greenhalgh is internationally renowned as an historian of art and design and the decorative arts. For the last decade he has been Director of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, UK, and Professor of Art History and Museum Strategy there. Prior to this, he held a number of senior roles in museum and university life in a number of countries, including Head of Research at the V&A Museum, London, Director and President of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design in Washington DC, USA, and President of NSCAD University, Canada. He has published widely on the visual arts, and curated and taught in leading organisations all over the world. He originally trained as a painter before becoming an art historian. Early in his teaching career, he encountered ceramic, which eventually led to Ceramic, Art and Civilisation (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2021).