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

Issue 20 – July 2021

Rita Duffy, Soften the Border (dithered detail), 2017, installation on Blacklion-Belcoo bridge, dimensions variable. Digital image courtesy of Rita Duffy (all rights reserved).

CONVERSATION PIECE

British Art after Brexit

Convened by British Art Studies Editorial Group

ARTICLE

Slade, London, Asia: Contrapuntal Histories between Imperialism and Decolonization 1945–1989 (Part 1)

By Liz Bruchet
and Ming Tiampo

ANIMATING THE ARCHIVE

Slade, London, Asia: Animating the Archive (Part 1)

By Ming Tiampo
and Liz Bruchet

ARTICLE

“Everything I Learnt About Activism I Learnt in King’s Lynn”: Gustav Metzger’s Formative Years in King’s Lynn

By Jonathan P. Watts

ARTICLE

Lady of Silences: The Enigmatic Photo-Text Work of Zarina Bhimji

By Allison K. Young

ONE OBJECT

Victorian Anatomical Atlases and Their Many Lives (and Deaths)

By Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

ONE OBJECT

Anatomy in Context: Conversations in the Wellcome Collection, London

Filmed by Jonathan Law
with Ludmilla Jordanova
and William Schupbach

ONE OBJECT

Bloodlines: Circulating the Male Body Across Borders in Art and Anatomy 1780–1860

By Anthea Callen

OBJECTS IN MOTION

Black Apollo: Aesthetics, Dissection, and Race in Joseph Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy

By Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

ONE OBJECT

Mr Joseph Maclise and the Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet

By Michael Sappol

ONE OBJECT

Joseph Maclise, Taylor & Walton, and Publishing on Gower Street in the 1840s

By William Schupbach

OBJECTS IN MOTION

“It Should Be on Every Surgeon’s Table”: The Reception and Adoption of Joseph Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy (1851) in the United States

By Naomi Slipp