Friday 5 September 2014

The Berger Prize 2014

William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2014

Books published 2013


Winner of the £5000 annual prize

Alex Bremner
Imperial Gothic. Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in The British Empire 1840–1870
Published by Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art


SHORT LIST

William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain
Susan Weber, ed.
Yale University Press for The Bard Graduate Center, New York
9780300196184
hb £60 pp 656, 624 col

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland: A History
Annette Carruthers
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300109139
hb £60 pp 424, 250bw, 100 col

Houghton Revisited. The Walpole Masterpieces from Catherine the Great’s Hermitage
Thierry Morel, Andrew Moore, et al.
Royal Academy Publications
9781907533730 (Houghton pb) 9781907533518 (RA pb) 
9781907533501 (RA hb), hb £40 pp272, col

Imperial Gothic. Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in The British Empire 1840–1870
G A Bremner
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300187038
hb £50 pp384, 230 bw 60 col

The City and The King. Architecture and Politics in Restoration London
Christine Stevenson
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300190229
hb £45 pp 304, 115 bw 23 col

Ham House. 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage
Christopher Rowell, ed
The National Trust
9780300185409
hb £75 pp 536, 36 bw 398 col


LONG LIST

The Reception of Titian in Britain
Peter Humfrey
Brepols
9782503536750, pb €70, pp255, 150 bw, 16 col

Edwardian Opulence – British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Angus Trumble and Andrea Wolk Rager
Yale University Press/Yale Center for British Art
9780300190250, hb £50, pp420, 30 bw, 350 col

From There to Here: The Art of Michael Buhler
Mary Rose Beaumont, Jane England, John Mack
Agra Publications/Lund Humphries (Ashgate Publishing)
9781848221413 hb £35, pp180, 3bw, 152 col

Roman Fever 1700–1870: Influence, Infection and the Image of Rome
Richard Wrigley
Yale University Press 
9780300190212 hb £45, pp330, 65 bw, 50 col

Elizabeth and her People
Tarnya Cooper with Jane Eade
National Portrait Gallery
978 185514 4651, hb £30, pp 224, 100 col

West Country to Worlds End, The South West in the Tudor Age
Sam Smiles
Paul Holberton Publishing
9781907372520, pb £20, pp120, 50 col

The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making
David Esterly
Duckworth Overlook
9780715645475 hb £16.99, pp288, ill

James Dickson Innes (1887–1914)
John Hoole and Margaret Simons
Lund Humphries
9781848221390 hb £45 (£40.50 web), pp184 2 bw, 166 col

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury
H L Meakin
Ashgate Publishing Ltd
9780754693973 hb £75, pp410,  31bw, 64col

Stanley Spencer. Heaven in a Hell of War
Amanda Bradley & Howard Watson eds
Pallant House Gallery 
in association with The National Trust
9781869827137 pb £19.95, pp112, 10 bw, 81 col

British Murals and Decorative Painting 1920–1960 
Alan Powers, et al.
Sansom & Co
978-1908326232 hb £40, 352pp, 120/130 col

Art and The Second World War
Monica Bohm-Duchen
Ashgate Publishing (Lund Humphries)
9781848220331 hb £40 (£36 web ), pp288, 30bw, 185col

Two Temple Place
Barbara Bryant
Bulldog Trust
9780957062825 hb £15, pp 96, col

Magnificent Entertainments: Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals 
Melanie Doderer-Winkler
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300186420 pp320, 100 bw, 133 col

Anti-Ugly: Excursions in English Architecture and Design
Gavin Stamp
Aurum Press Limited
9781781311233 hb £16.99, pp272, bw

Amy Sawyer of Ditchling, Artist, Eccentric and Lady of Letters
Anne Parfitt-King
Country Books
9781906789886 pb £15, pp186, 6bw, 36 col

William Burgess and The High Victorian Dream
J Mordaunt Crook
Frances Lincoln (revd edn)
9780711233492 hb £45, pp432, bw, col

Eric Ravilious Artist and Designer
Alan Powers
Lund Humphries
9781848221116 hb £35, pp216, col

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Art and Architecture
Peter & Linda Murray, revised Tom Devonshire Jones
Oxford University Press
9780199680276 hb £35, pp672, ill

Men from The Ministry. How Britain Saved Its Heritage
Simon Thurley
Yale University Press 
9780300195729 hb £18.99, pp224, 100 bw

Gainsborough Cottage Doors – An Insight into the Artist’s Last Decade
Hugh Belsey
Paul Holberton Publishing
9781907372506 pb £25, pp120, 80 col

J M W Turner RA (1775-1851) Masterpieces from the Whitworth Art Gallery
Andrew Clayton-Payne
ACP Publications
9780955948015 hb £25, pp55 17 col

Magnificent Marble Statues: British Sculpture in the Mansion House
Julius Bryant
Paul Holberton Publishing
9781907372551 pb £20, pp144, 90 col

Frank Holl: Emerging from the Shadows
Jonathan Black & Sara Ayres
Philip Wilson Publishers
9781781300107 hb £25, pp144, ill

The Unfinished Monk
Richard Pitcairn-Knowles & Jeremy Howard
Pitcairn-Knowles Publishing
9780955859137 pb £15.99, pp268, ill

Keith Vaughan – Figure and Ground
Colin Cruise
Sansom & Co, in Association with School of Art, University of Aberystwyth
9781908326331 pb £16.50, pp96, ill

Landscapes of London: The City, Country and Suburbs 1660–1840
Elizabeth McKellar
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300109139 hb £45, pp 276, 120bw, 24 col

Alan Sorrell: The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist
Sacha Llewellyn & Richard Sorrell, eds
The Fine Art Society/Liss Fine Art
Sansom & Co
9781908326379 pb £25, col

Patrick Reyntiens: Catalogue of Stained Glass
Libby Horner
Sansom & Co
9781908326485 hb £60, pp352 col 

Turner and The Sea
Christine Riding & Richard Johns
Thames & Hudson
9780500239056 hb £35, pp288, 3 bw, 222 col

The Young Van Dyck
Alejandro Vergara and Friso Lammertse
Thames & Hudson
9780500970508 hb £45, pp416, 36 bw, 242 col

Francis Bacon – Five Decades
Anthony Bond
Thames & Hudson
9780500093757 hb £34.95, pp240, 215 col

A is a Critic: Writings from The Spectator
Andrew Lambirth
Unicorn Press
9781906509200 pb£12.99, pp288

Gwilym Prichard  – A Lifetime’s Gazing
Harry Heuser & Robert Meyrick
Sansom & Co
9781908326157 hb £25, pp112, ill

Treasures of the Royal Courts, Tudors, Stuarts and The Russian Tsars
Olga Dmitrieva & Tessa Murdoch
V&A Publishing
9781851777310 hb £30, pp176, col

The Sheldonian Theatre: Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth Century Oxford
Anthony Geraghty
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300195040 hb £35, pp159, 22 bw, 45 col

Ireland and the Picturesque
Finola O’Kane
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300185386 hb £45, pp304, 30 bw, 115 col

The King’s Pictures. The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and his Courtiers
Francis Haskell (Nicholas Penny, Karen Serres, eds)
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300190120 hb £30, pp 260, 40 bw, 80 col

Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesque in British India
Romita Ray
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
978030018769 hb £50, pp372, 60 bw, 50 col

Georgians Revealed: Life Style and the Making of Modern Britain
Moira Goff, John Goldfinch, Karen Limper-Hertz and Helen Peden
The British Library
9780712357142 (pb) 9780712357135 (hb) 30 hb; £20 pb, pp168, 150col

Concepts of Creativity in Seventeenth Century  England
Rebecca Herissone & Alan Edward, eds
The Boydell Press
9781843837404 hb £60, pp372