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 23 – August 2022
The Market Woman’s Story: Contemporary Ceramics by Jacqueline Bishop (film still), 2022.
Digital image courtesy of Shelbourne Films, produced by Lucy Andia for British Art Studies (CC BY NC 4.0).
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Issue 22 – April 2022
Thames River Works
Lizzie Malcolm | Rectangle, Visualisation of the River Thames, 2022.
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Issue 21 – November 2021
Redefining the British Decorative Arts
Michelle Erickson, Wild Tweets, 2021, high temperature wood-fired indigenous North Carolina porcelain, height: 8 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
Rita Duffy, Soften the Border, 2017, installation on Blacklion-Belcoo bridge, dimensions variable.
Digital image courtesy of Rita Duffy (all rights reserved).
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Issue 19 – February 2021
Victor Ehikhamenor, Holy, Holy, Holy King (detail), 2018, rosary beads and bronze statuettes on canvas, 116 × 71 in.
Digital image courtesy of Victor Ehikhamenor (all rights reserved).
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Issue 18 – November 2020
Michael Leung, Mr. Lam turning the bone-setter illuminated sign on and off for the last time at the front entrance of his home, Yeung UK San Village, Wang Chau, 17 October 2020.
Digital image courtesy of Michel Leung.
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Issue 17 – September 2020
Elizabethan and Jacobean Miniature Paintings in Context
Isaac Oliver, Sir Edward Herbert, later 1st Lord Herbert of Cherbury (detail of visible light image), circa 1613-14, 18.1 × 22.9 cm. Powis Castle, National Trust (NT 1183954).
Digital image courtesy of Hamilton Kerr Institute.
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Issue 16 – June 2020
Bill Brandt, Stonehenge (recto), 1946, 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, Untitled Collage, 2016.
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
Ada Hao, Still from "like a flower paddle my teeth" (8:25), 2019.
Digital image courtesy of Ada Hao.
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Issue 12 – May 2019
Jean Cooke, Early Portrait of John Bratby, R.A., 1954, oil on canvas, 122 × 91.4 cm. Collection of Royal Academy of Arts (03/850).
Digital image courtesy of Royal Academy of Arts, London (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 and Shakila Haider, Gardens of England, Bryant's Hill, 2017, watercolour on wasli paper, 30 × 34 cm.
Digital image courtesy of David Alesworth and Shakila Haider.
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Issue 9 – August 2018
Jonathan Law, The Boy-Narcissus, 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, “Gypsy”, Chisholm's nickname for Elsie Knocker, Pervyse, 1915.
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
Unknown maker, Ivory Staff Terminal from Alcester, 11th Century, ivory, 14 × 5 cm. Collection of the British Museum (1903,0323.1).
Digital image courtesy of Trustees of the British Museum
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Issue 5 – April 2017
Francis Skidmore, Wrought Iron Door Fitting, Coventry, 1865-70, photograph. Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.416-2006)
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, Library Light, 2016
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Issue 1 – November 2015
Bedwyr Williams, Century Egg (video still), 2015, Commissioned by the University of Cambridge North West Cambridge Development through the Habitation Artist in Residency Programme managed by Contemporary Art Society and Insite Arts
Digital image courtesy of the artist and Limoncello Gallery