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

Issue 4 – November 2016

Martin Parr, Surrey, Epsom, England, UK (dithered detail), 1973. Digital image courtesy of Martin Parr / © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos (LON29514).

EDITORIAL

Editorial

By British Art Studies Editorial Group

LOOK FIRST

New Brutalist Image 1949–55: “Atlas to a New World” or, “Trying to Look at Things Today”

By Claire Zimmerman Victoria Walsh

ARTICLE

The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780–1835

By Matthew Lincoln Abram Fox

ARTICLE

Rehanging Reynolds at the British Institution: Methods for Reconstructing Ephemeral Displays

By Catherine Roach

ARTICLE

Insurgent Citizenship: Dr John Nicholas Tresidder’s Photographs of War and Peace in British India

By Sean Robert Willcock

ARTICLE

“The Mirror-Like Sea”: A Bloomsbury Vision of Same-Sex Desire In Duncan Grant’s Bathing, 1911

By Vajdon Sohaili

ARTICLE

Super-size Caricature: Thomas Rowlandson’s Place des Victoires at the Society of Artists in 1783

Kate Grandjouan

CONVERSATION PIECE

Exit Theory: Thinking Photography and Thinking History from One Crisis to Another

Convened by John Tagg

ARTIST COLLABORATION

Martin Parr

By Martin Parr

CONFERENCE

Conference Proceedings: Photography and Britishness

Convened by Sarah Victoria Turner Martina Droth