Bøker utgitt av Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

The life and legacy of brilliant but elusive potter Lucie Rie is investigated through interviews, letters and the analysis of her elegant, modernist vessels

How a wave of exotic botanical imports from across Britain's empire shaped its gardens and psyche.

The first comprehensive exploration of Aubrey Williams’s art, revealing the cross-cultural dynamics and transformations connecting Caribbean, British and Atlantic histories.

A bold new study of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian photographs, charting the legacy of colonialism following the 1857 Indian Uprising

A groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium’s intersection with radical politics

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art

A dazzling history of chromatic media technologies, from Victorian printing to colour television, that reveals how Britain modernised colour and how colour, in turn, modernised Britain

Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire

Explores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equality, improvement and colonialism

The first extended study of Frank Auerbach's remarkable portrait drawings reveals their complexity and ambition as works of graphic art

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck

A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester

A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature

The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary era

Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century India

A bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones, elucidating his fundamentally radical defiance of the Victorian age

The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district

A highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries

A study of how artists and photographers shaped imperial visions of war and peace in the Victorian period

A reconstruction of the 'Strand palaces', where England's early-modern and post-Reformation elites jostled to build and furnish new, secular cathedrals.

The first comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages

The first reference work to cover all engravers working on copper in Britain and Ireland 1714-1820

An in-depth examination of William Blake's glorious and acclaimed series of twelve monoprints

The life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detail

A beautifully illustrated exploration of opulent tastes and the power of patronage in 18th-century Britain

The story of an innovative designer and farsighted art entrepreneur and the important role he played in the dissemination of 19th-century Aestheticism

A revelatory study of one of the 18th century‿s greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734‿1797), though conventionally known as a ‿painter of light‿, returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the artist. Long seen as a quintessentially modern and progressive figure ‿ one of the artistic icons of the English Enlightenment ‿ Craske overturns this traditional view of the artist. He demonstrates the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative. Craske offers a succession of new and powerful interpretations of the artist‿s paintings, including some of his most famous masterpieces. In doing so, he recovers Wright‿s deep engagement with the landscape, with the pleasures and sufferings of solitude, and with the themes of time, history and mortality. In this book, Joseph Wright of Derby emerges not only as one of Britain‿s most ambitious and innovative artists, but also as one of its most profound. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

An exploration of Turner's final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most significant paintings

Exploring the myths and realities of the origins of the “modern artistâ€? in Britain The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to scrutiny? Making the Modern Artist gets to the root of these questions by exploring the historical genesis of the figure of the artist. Based on an unprecedented biographical survey of almost 1,800 students at the Royal Academy of Arts in London between 1769 and 1830, the book reveals hidden stories about family origins, personal networks, and patterns of opportunity and social mobility. Locating the emergence of the “modern artistâ€? in the crucible of Romantic Britain, rather than in 19th-century Paris or 20th-century New York, it reconnects the story of art with the advance of capitalism and demonstrates surprising continuities between liberal individualism and state formation, our dreams of personal freedom, and the social suffering characteristic of the modern era. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art