For thirty years, until 2015, Richard Dorment was the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. Writing almost every week about the most significant current art exhibitions, mainly in London, but ranging throughout the UK, and frequently in Paris, Amsterdam and in New York and Washington.

The result is an extraordinary collection of around a thousand essays, of which he has selected 106, ranging from early prehistoric art of the Ice Age to the performance art of today. This is an astonishingly readable and accessible introduction to the work of the world’s finest artists.