Berger Prize Short List 2013

The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2013
Short List
[books published in 2012: for Long List go to www.britishartjournal.co.uk home page, William MB Berger Prize in menu on right-hand side]
The Prize, worth £5000 to the winner, will be awarded at a reception in London on Thursday 4 July 2013

• Basil Spence, Buildings and Projects

Louise Campbell, Miles Glendinning and Jane Thomas, eds.
RIBA Publishing
ISBN 978-1859463093, 
hb £46, pp368


• Wall Paintings of Eton 

Emily Howe, Henrietta McBurney, David Park, Stephen Rickerby, Lisa Shekede

Scala, 8 November 2012

ISBN 978-1-857-59787-5

hb £35, pp192, colour 210

• Japanned Papier Mâché and Tinware c1740-1940

Yvonne Jones

The Antique Collectors Club, 4 May 2012

ISBN 978-1-85149-6860

hb £45, pp336, 360 ills

• The London Square 

Todd Longstaff-Gowan

Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 20 April 2012

ISBN 978-0-300-15201-2

hb £30, pp304, b/w 160, colour 100

• George Stubbs: 1724-1806 Science into Art 

Editor Herbert W Rott 

Prestel Publishing Ltd, 29 February 2012

ISBN 978-3-79135170-4 English edition

hb £35, pp240,b/w 12, colour 153

• James Wyatt Architect to George III 

John Martin Robinson

Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 21^st May 2012

ISBN 978-0-300-17690-2

hb £50, pp400, b/w 170, colour 150

Robin Simon is Paul Mellon Lecturer

in  British Art 2013

He gave the Paul Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery, London, each Monday 14 January–11 February.
The theme was British art and the theatre, with the title 'Painters and Players from Hogarth to Olivier'.
Details on the National Gallery website
Robin Simon was joined by actor William Chubb for the first four lectures, and for the final lecture by soprano Alison Pearce and Paul Wynne-Griffiths, piano. The music included works by Handel, Arne and Linley.
The lecture series was repeated at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven,  10-24 April 2013, when Robin Simon was joined by the actor Bruce Altman for the first four lectures and by actor Alex Kramer for the fifth lecture.