Berger Prize 2011 Long List
[books published 1 January-31 December 2010]
The Short List of six will be announced in mid-June 2011 and the Award of the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History (worth £5000 to the winner) will be awarded by A.N. Wilson at a ceremony in London UK on the evening of 5 July 2011.
Assessors Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting & Sculpture, Denver Art Museum; Robin Simon, Editor, The British Art Journal; Katharine Eustace, Editor, Sculpture Journal; Rosemary Hill, Fellow, All Souls’ College, Oxford; Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Surveyor of The Queen’s Pictures; Angus Trumble, Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art
Adrian Clark, British and Irish Art 1945-1951. From War to Festival
2010 Hogarth Arts/Paul Holberton
ISBN 978 0 95554063 4 8, £30, pp272, 24 bw
David Nolan and Carolyn Starren, On Public View – A Journey around the Sculptures in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Chapters download as pdfs with a video introduction to watch on the site
Celina Fox, The Arts of Industry In the Age of Enlightenment
[2009] 18 February 2010, YUP
ISBN 978 0 300 16042 0, £50, pp576, 200 bw, 60 col
Cherry Ann Knott, George Vernon 1636-1702 ‘Who built this House’. Sudbury Hall Derbyshire
1 June 2010 Tun House Publishing
ISBN 978 0 9565240 0 3, £75 (signed limited edition of 500), pp782, illus bw & col
Katharine Baetjer, British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875
30 March 2010 Metropolitan Museum/YUP
ISBN 978 1 58839 348 7 (Met Mus)
ISBN 978 0 300 15509 9 (YUP)
£55, pp308, 215 bw, 140 col
Kevin Sharpe, Image Wars: Promoting Kings & Commonwealth in England
4 May 2010 YUP
ISBN 9780300162004, £35, pp512, 90 bw
John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery. Later Stuart Portraits 1685-1714
8 February 2010 National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 978-185514 410 1, £125, pp460, 358 bw, 305 col
John McAleer, Representing Africa. Landscape, exploration and empire in southern Africa, 1780-1870
1 March 2010 Manchester University Press
ISBN 978 0 7190 8104 0, £60pp, 241, 16 bw, 9 col
Cassandra Albinson, Peter Funnell & Lucy Peltz, eds, Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance
Exh cat. 21 October 10 YUP
ISBN 978 0 300 16718 4, £40, pp280, 20 bw, 160 col
Cecilia Powell & Stephen Hebron, Savage Grandeur & Noblest Thoughts. Discovering the Lake District 1750-1820
Exh cat. 2010 Wordsworth Trust
ISBN 978 1 905256 42 6, £19.95, many illus in colour
Mary Bryan H Curd, Flemish & Dutch Artists in Early Modern England. Collaboration and Competition, 1460-1680
1 May 2010 Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 9780754667124, £65, pp236, ills bw
Barbara Bryant, GF Watts In Kensington. Little Holland House and Gallery
[2009] March 2010 Watts Gallery
ISBN 9780956102232, £10, pp92, 81 bw
Mireille Galinou, Cottages & Villas: The Birth of the Garden Suburb
19 October 2010 YUP
ISBN 978 0 300 16726 9, £40, pp480, 55 bw, col 250
Christiana Payne, John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter
14 May 2010 YUP
ISBN 9780300165753, £40, pp256, 150 bw, 120 col
Charlotte Yeldham, Maria Spilsbury (1776-1820), Artist and Evangelical
1 February 2010 Ashgate
ISBN 978 0 7546 6991 3, £65, pp230, 73 bw,
Mark Bills, Watts Chapel: A Gude to the Symbols of Mary Watts’s Art and Crafts Masterpiece
1 July 2010 Philip Wilson
ISBN 978 0 85667 692 5, £18.99, pp80, 187 bw/col
Bernd W Krysmanski, Hogarth’s Hidden Parts
Georg Holms Verlag, Hildesheim
ISBN 978-3-487-14471-9, Euros 48, pp514, 304 bw
Elisabeth Soulier Detis, Guess at the Rest. Cracking the Hogarth Code
27 May 2010 James Clarke & Co Ltd
ISBN 139780718892159, £35, 183 bw, pp233
Douglas Fordham, British Art and the Seven Years’ War. Allegiance and Autonomy
2010 University of Pennysylvannia Press
ISBN 9780812242430, £42.50, pp334, 87 bw
Tim Barringer, Before and After Modernism, Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka Shonibare, MBE
Exh cat. November 2010 Central St Martin’s
ISBN 978 0 946282 00 5, £15pp,132, 151 bw/col
Jason Kelly, The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment
[2009] 28 January 2010 YUP
ISBN 978 0 300 15219 7, £40, pp366, 100 bw, 20 col
Julian Mitchell, The Wye Tour and its Artists
Exh cat. 2010 Logaston Press
ISBN 978 1906663 32 2, £12.95, pp168, illus bw & col
Max Browne, Theodor von Holst. His art and the Pre-Raphaelites
Exh cat. 2010 Holst Birthplace Museum, Cheltenham
ISBN 13 978 0 9563769 0 9, pp64, illus colour & bw
Leonée Ormond, Linley Sambourne: Illustrator and Punch Cartoonist
2010 Paul Holberton
ISBN 978-1907372032, £30, pp312, 120 bw
Jennifer Scott, The Royal Portrait. Image and Impact
2010 Royal Collection Enterprises
ISBN 978 1 905686 13 1, £19.95, pp200, 157 col
Philip Brookman, Eadweard Muybridge
Exh cat. 2010 Tate Publishing
ISBN 9781854378378, £29.99, illus bw & col
Charlotte Gere & Judy Rudoe, British Museum – Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria
1 April 2010 British Museum Press
ISBN 978-0714128191, £50, pp552, 100 bw, 400 col
David Fraser Jenkins
Paul Nash. The Elements
Exh cat. February 2010 Dulwich Picture Gallery (Scala)
ISBN 978 1 85759 619 9 £25, illus in colour
Jessica Feather, British Watercolour & Drawings. Lord Leverhulme’s Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery
1 October 2010 Liverpool University Press
ISBN 978-1846311550 £35, pp400, 370 bw/col
Mary Bennett, Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonné
10 September 10 YUP
ISBN 978-0300165913, £125, 2 vols, pp686, 522 bw, 458 col
Ilaria Bignamini and Clare Hornsby, Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-century Rome
25 February 2010 YUP
ISBN 978-0300160437, £45, 2 vols, pp630, 200 bw, 50 col
Robert Hewison, Ruskin on Venice
14 January 2010 YUP
ISBN 978-0300121780, £45, pp500, 105 bw, 25 col
Malcolm Jones, The Print in Early Modern England: An Historical Oversight
8 June 2010 YUP for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
ISBN 978 0300136975, £45, pp352, 270 bw, 20 col
Richard Ormond & Elain Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures & Landscapes 1883-1899
The Complete Paintings Vol 5
7 September 2010 YUP
ISBN 978-0300161113, £50, pp392, B&W 127 bw, 311 col
Grace Brockington, Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain
1 October 2010 YUP
ISBN 9780300151954, £35, pp244, 100 bw, 40 col
Morna O’Neill, Walter Crane: The Arts & Crafts, Paintings & Politics 1875-1890
30 November 2010 YUP
ISBN 978-0300167689, £35, pp320, 100 bw, 20 col
Tara Hamling, Decorating the Godly Household. Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain
25 November 2010 YUP for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art
ISBN 978-0300162820, £45, pp256, 80 bw, 40 col
Anthony Vidler, James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive
15 October 2010 YUP
ISBN 978-0300167238, £35, pp300, 330 col
