Monthly Archives: October 2013

Art’s Emotions—Formidable Knowledge and a Certain Courage

In a review of Art’s Emotions, Chairman of the Henry Moore Foundation and former Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Master of Magdalene College, Duncan Robinson CBE, writes in the Magdalene College Magazine: “To tackle these questions, and to go on to discuss ‘the place of art in life as a whole’ requires not only a formidable knowledge of philosophy and art, but a certain courage, ‘where angels fear to tread’. Freeman has both to a [remarkable] degree.”