Issue Index
British Art Studies provides an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art, architecture, and visual culture in their most diverse and international contexts. It is co-published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and reflects their dynamic research cultures.
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Issue 24 – March 2023
Installation view, Jala Wahid: Conflagration, 22 October–30 April 2023, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
Digital image courtesy of Jala Wahid. Photo: Rob Harris © 2022 BALTIC (all rights reserved).
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Issue 23 – August 2022
Jacqueline Bishop, The Market Woman's Story – 11, 2022, vitrified porcelain, 23.5 × 30 cm. Fabricated by Emma Price.
Digital image courtesy of Jacqueline Bishop / Photograph by Jenny Harper (all rights reserved).
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Issue 22 – April 2022
Thames River Works
James McNeill Whistler, Troopships (detail), 1887, etching and drypoint, second (final) state, 13.1 × 17.6 cm. Collection of the The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art (2013.490).
Digital image courtesy of The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art (all rights reserved).
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Issue 21 – November 2021
Redefining the British Decorative Arts
Michelle Erickson, Cauldron, from the series Ply-MYTH, 2019, wheel thrown with lifecast shell and industrial artifacts, made from indigenous North Carolina woodfired stoneware with copper wash, 16 × 19.5 in. Collection of the artist.
Digital image courtesy of the artist / Photograph by Robert Hunter (all rights reserved).
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Issue 20 – July 2021
Francis Danby, Sunset at Sea After a Storm, 1824, oil on canvas, 89.6 × 142.9 cm. Collection of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (K5008).
Digital image courtesy of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (all rights reserved).
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Issue 19 – February 2021
Victor Ehikhamenor, I Am Ogiso, The King from Heaven (detail), 2017, rosary beads and thread on lace textile, 103 × 69 in.
Digital image courtesy of Victor Ehikhamenor (all rights reserved).
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Issue 18 – November 2020
INTERPRT, Spatial visualisation, 2020.
Digital image courtesy of INTERPRT.
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Issue 17 – September 2020
Elizabethan and Jacobean Miniature Paintings in Context
Left portrait: Isaac Oliver, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, later Duke of Richmond, circa 1605, watercolour on vellum, laid onto table-book leaf, 5.7 × 4.4 cm. Collection of National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 3063); Right portrait: Isaac Oliver, Ludovick Stuart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, later Duke of Richmond, circa 1603, watercolour on vellum, laid on card, 4.9 × 4 cm. Collection of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (FM 3869).
Digital image courtesy of National Portrait Gallery, London (All rights reserved); Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (All rights reserved).
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Issue 16 – June 2020
Bill Brandt, Monsoon Drive (Five) (recto), 1969, photographic print.
Digital image courtesy of Bill Brandt and the Bill Brandt Archive Ltd. Photography by Richard Caspole and Robert Hixon.
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Issue 15 – February 2020
Laura Grace Ford, Alpha, Isis, Eden, installation photograph, 1 February – 18 March 2017, multi-media installation made in collaboration with sound engineer Jack Latham.
Digital image courtesy of Laura Grace Ford.
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Issue 14 – November 2019
James Richards, on the side of the disease and not the cure, 2019.
Digital image courtesy of James Richards.
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Issue 13 – September 2019
London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories
Nicholas Tee Performing "Yellow Peril" at Manchester Art Gallery, 6 March 2019.
Digital image courtesy of Nicholas Tee.
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Issue 12 – May 2019
Avinash Chandra, Drawing 3 (detail), 1963, watercolour, 57.1 × 66 cm. Collection of Museums Sheffield (VIS.3419).
Digital image courtesy of the estate of Avinash Chandra. Photo courtesy of Museums Sheffield (All rights reserved).
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Issue 11 – March 2019
Theatres of War: Experimental Performance in London, 1914–1918 and Beyond
Film still, The Ballet of the Nations, 2018.
Digital image courtesy of Impermanence.
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Issue 10 – November 2018
Landscape Now
David Alesworth, Unter den Linden, 2010, horticultural intervention, public art project, terminalia arjuna seeds (sterilized) yellow paint.
Digital image courtesy of David Alesworth.
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Issue 9 – August 2018
Jonathan Law, Pattern, excerpt from film, 2018.
Digital image courtesy of Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art with support from the staff of Leighton House Museum, The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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Issue 8 – June 2018
Mairi Chisholm, “Lt. Aertz, Gypsy and Dr Lejeune”, Elsie Knocker and two Belgian soldiers, Pervyse, 1917.
Digital image courtesy of National Library of Scotland.
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Issue 7 – November 2017
Clare Twomey, Made in China, ceramic vessels, 2016. Installed at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017.
Digital image courtesy of Yale Center for British Art | Photo: Richard Caspole
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Issue 6 – June 2017
Invention and Imagination in British Art and Architecture, 600–1500
Becket on a Peacock, circa 1250–1350, lead alloy, 5 × 2.7 cm. Digital replica of pilgrim souvenir in the collection of the British Museum (2001,0702.2).
Digital image courtesy of Rob Kaleta for the Digital Pilgrim Project (2016). Taken courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum.
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Issue 5 – April 2017
Francis Skidmore, Hereford screen, spandrel, photograph. Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.430:4-2006)
Digital image courtesy of Victoria & Albert Museum
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Issue 4 – November 2016
Martin Parr, Cricket Players Looking for Cricket Ball, Chew Stoke, England, UK, 1992
Digital image courtesy of Martin Parr / © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos (LON55595)
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Issue 3 – July 2016
British Sculpture Abroad, 1945 – 2000
Simon Starling, Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore), 2006–8, steel and mussels, 162.6 × 76.2 × 76.2 cm
Digital image courtesy of the artist
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Issue 2 – April 2016
David Lewis, Stair: Passing Clouds, 2016
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Issue 1 – November 2015
Patrick Staff, The Foundation (video still), 2015, Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Co-produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol