British Art Studies is an innovative space for new peer-reviewed scholarship on all aspects of British art.

Issue 1 – November 2015

Tapestry. Patterns in maroon, dusky pink, white, navy, sky blue, sage green, and pale yellow intermix in this close view of low-pile rug. Several eyes of different sizes are woven among the patterns. The shimmering gold back of the rug is visible where it flips over near the bottom right corner. — Linder, Diagrams of Love: Marriage of Eyes (dithered detail), 2015. Digital image courtesy of Linder Sterling / Dovecot Tapestry Studio, 2015. Photo credit, Michael Wolchover. Courtesy the artist, Stuart Shave/Modern Art and Dovecot Studios Ltd.

ARTICLE

Editorial

By *British Art Studies* Editorial Group

CONVERSATION PIECE

There’s No Such Thing as British Art

Coordinated by Richard Johns

ARTICLE

A beautiful assemblage of an interesting nature: Gainsborough’s Charity Relieving Distress and the Reconciliation of High and Low Art

By Georgina Cole

ARTICLE

Painting that Grows Back: Futures Past and the Ur-feminist Art of Magda Cordell McHale, 1955–1961

By Giulia Smith

ONE OBJECT

Haptic Blackness: The Double Life of an 18th-century Bust

By Cyra Levenson Chi-ming Yang Ken Gonzales-Day

ARTICLE

Arts and Crafts Painting: The Political Agency of Things

By Morna O'Neill

LOOK FIRST

Deakin: Double Exposures

Discussion between Paul Rousseau James Boaden Jonathan Law

ARTICLE

Pregnant Wit: ingegno in Renaissance England

By Alexander Marr

ARTICLE

Varieties of Photographic Experience: Frederick H. Evans and the Lantern Slide

By Kara Fiedorek

ARTICLE

Abstraction’s Ecologies: Post-Industrialization, Waste and the Commodity Form in Prunella Clough’s Paintings of the 1980s and 1990s

By Catherine Spencer

ARTIST COLLABORATION

British Art Show 8

By Roger Malbert