Thursday 19 October 2017

William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017 Short List

Elizabeth Einberg
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300221749
hb, pp432, bw 120 col 390 £95
‘Exemplary and much more than a catalogue raisonné, full of imaginative and scholarly interpretation, with new pictures to study and familiar ones to understand anew; countless fresh insights.’ ‘A truly magnificent monument to a life’s work, both of the author and of Hogarth!’

Clare Browne, Glyn Davies and MA Michael, eds, with the assistance of Michaela Zöschg
English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum
Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 978-0-300222005
hb pp324 bw 100 col 160 £40
‘Stands alone as an outstanding collection of expert contributions to accompany one of the great exhibitions of all time, providing a permanent recreation of the show.’ ‘So much of the exhibition is reproduced and so well, with text and images perfectly balanced.’

James Stourton
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art & Civilisation
William Collins
ISBN 978-0-007493418
hb pp496 bw 2 col 30 £30
‘A delight; a book that brings out the different sides of Clark’s complex character through the most thorough research and perceptive writing.’ ‘I read it with great pleasure and wanted it to go on and on.’ ‘Sober, entertaining, admirable; without glossing over the personal life, Clark emerges as inspirational, very hard-working, even unexpectedly modest.’

Susan Rather
The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 978-0-300214611
hb pp316 bw 80 col 100 £50
‘A highly original and stimulating contribution to our understanding of the period.’ ‘Especially ingenious in its treatment of Benjamin West’s slippery character.’ ‘Paints a picture of an established school that thought of itself as “British” but was ready to move on to being “American”.’

Sacha Llewellyn
Winifred Knights 1899–1947
Lund Humphries in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery
ISBN 978-1-848221772 (HB) 978-1-898519348 (PB)
pp208 bw 11 col 165 £40 hb £25 pb
‘There could not be a better example of how to re-establish a reputation that urgently needed it, a triumph of rehabilitation that will open up a whole group of neglected artists for future study and a tradition that has been “written out”.’ ‘Extraordinary research from scratch.’

David Fraser Jenkins and Hugh Fowler Wright 
The Art of John Piper
Co-published by Unicorn and Portland Gallery
ISBN 978-1-910787052
hb pp 500 col 300+ £45

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‘Beautifully designed and produced and beautifully written, all you could ever need on Piper, covering his life, his art and aesthetic.’ ‘Evokes the character of his painting in wonderful words with a host of images, a superb celebration of a most distinctive voice.’


Long List

Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson
William Rothenstein & his Circle
Ben Uri Gallery & Museum
ISBN 978-0-900157585
hb pp160 bw 6 col 66 £20

Nicholas Stanley-Price, Mary K McGuigan and John F McGuigan Jr
At the Foot of the Pyramid. 300 Years of the cemetery for foreigners in Rome
Casa di Goethe, Rome
ISBN 978-3-930370-40-5
hb pp136, 47 col £18

Elizabeth Einberg
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
9780300221749
hb, pp432, bw 120 col 390 £95

Peter N Lindfield
Georgian Gothic: Medievalist Architecture, Furniture & Interiors 1730–1840
Boydell Press
ISBN 978-1-783271276
hb pp282 bw 59 line ill 11 £50

Mark Ovenden
Johnston & Gill: Very British Types
Lund Humphries
978-1-84822-176-5
pp176 illus £32

David Fraser Jenkins and Hugh Fowler Wright 
The Art of John Piper
Unicorn Press and Portland Gallery
ISBN 978-1-910787052
hb pp 500 col 300+ £45

Niamh O’Sullivan
In the Lion’s Den: Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire
Cork University Press
ISBN 978-0-990468684
pb pp152 bw 33 col 32 €29

Cathy Ross
Revealing the Charterhouse: the Making of a London Landmark
D Giles Limited in association with the Charterhouse
ISBN 978-1-907804984
hb pp224 bw 8 col 150 £29.95

Mark Thompson and Jonathan Black
War in the Sunshine: The British in Italy 1917–18 Through the Eyes of Sydney Carline, Ernest Brooks and William Joseph Brunell
Estorick Foundation
ISBN 978-0-956786869
pb pp92 bw 60 col 29 £14.95

Mary Clark
The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection: Patronage, Politics and Patriotism, 1603–2013
Four Courts Press
ISBN 978-1-846825842
hb pp238 col 93 €36

Michael Symes
The English Landscape Garden in Europe
Historic England
ISBN 978-1-848023574
pb pp160 bw 23  col 93 £25

Marilyn Palmer and Ian West
Technology in the Country House
Historic England
ISBN 978-1-848022805
hb pp272 bw 16 col 210 £60

Julian Holder and Elizabeth McKellar
Neo-Georgian Architecture 1880–1970: A Reappraisal
Historic England
ISBN 978-1-848022355
hb pp256 bw 85 col 65 £50

Jane Fenlon, Ruth Kenny, Caroline Pegum, Brendan Rooney
Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period, New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620–1820
Irish Academic Press
ISBN 978-1-911024262 (HB) 978-1-911024354
pp276 col 125 €55 hb €29.95 pb

Elaine Andrews, Margaret Bear, Brian Foss and Paul Liss, ed by Sacha Llewellyn and Paul Liss
WWII War Pictures by British Artists
Liss Llewellyn Fine Art
ISBN 978-0-993088421
pb pp 240 bw 14 col 251 £25

Annabel Jacqueline Setter, Andrew Lambirth, Brian Foss, Michael Barker and William Gaunt, ed by Paul Liss and Sacha Llewellyn
Charles Cundall: A Working Method
Liss Llewellyn Fine Art
ISBN 978-0-956713988 pb pp192 bw 27 col 129 £25
Ian Collins
Rose Hilton
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1-848222069
hb pp208 bw 25 col 200 £35

Sacha Llewellyn
Winifred Knights 1899–1947
Lund Humphries in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery
ISBN 978-1-848221772 (HB) 978-1-898519348 (PB)
pp208 bw 11 col 165 £40 hb £25 pb

Desna Greenhow, ed
The Diary of Mary Watts 1877–1904
Lund Humphries in association with Watts Gallery
ISBN 978-1-848222014
hb pp264 bw 22 col 24 £30

James Scott assisted by Claudia Milburn,
with an Introduction by Michael Bird
The Sculpture of Kenneth Armitage
Lund Humphries
ISBN 978-1-848221789
hb pp208 bw 360 col 40 £55

Jeff Rosen
Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘Fancy subjects’: Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire
Manchester University Press
ISBN 978-1-784993177
hb pp336 bw 50 2 tables £75

Hilary Macartney and José Manuel Matilla
Copied by the Sun: Talbotype ‘Illustrations to the Annals of the Artists of Spain’ by Sir William Stirling Maxwell
Museo Nacional del Prado with the collaboration of National Media Museum, University of Glasgow and the support of Banco Santander
ISBN 978-8-415245551 (complete work 2 vols)
hb pp vol I 368,  vol II 144 col 331 €85.50

Sarah Tiffin
Southeast Asia in Ruins: Art and Empire in the Early 19th Century
National University of Singapore
ISBN 978-9-971698492
hb pp316 col 82 SGD 46

Simon Martin
The Mythic Method: Classicism in British Art 1920–1950
Pallant House Gallery
ISBN 978-1-869827892
pb pp128 col 92 £25

Peter Lord
The Tradition: A new history of Welsh art
Parthian Books
ISBN 978-1-910409626
hb pp400 col 405 £50

Neil Chambers with contributions by Anna Agnarsdóttir, Sir David Attenborough, Jeremy Coote, Philip J Hatfield and John Gascoigne
Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from The Endeavour Voyage 1768–1771
Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN 978-1-907372902
hb pp304 bw 150 £40

Lucilla Burn
The Fitzwilliam Museum: A History
Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 978-1-781300343
hb pp256 col 112 £25, $45

John Radcliffe and Mark Lance
George Lance: Victorian Master of Still Life
Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 978-1-781300312
hb pp192 pp80 £25, $45

Jovan Nicholson
Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour
Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 978-1-781300466
pb pp144 col 110 £17.99 $29.50

Katharine Eustace
Britannia: Icon on the Coin
Royal Mint Museum
ISBN 978-1-869917029
hb pp 144 bw col £35

Roger Brown
Wynford Dewhurst: Manchester’s Monet
Sansom & Company
ISBN 978-1-911408000
pb pp128 bw 15 col 82 £20

Gwen Yarker
Inquisitive Eyes: Slade Painters in Edwardian Wessex
Sansom & Company
ISBN 978-1-908326850
pb pp132 bw 44 col 68 £20

George Tute
George Tute: A Life in Images
Sansom & Company
ISBN 978-1-911408048
hb pp252 bw 50 col 140 £45

Arnika Schmidt
Nino Costa (1826–1903): Transnational Exchange in European Landscape Painting
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 978-8-836633845
hb pp 256 bw 113 col 88 €70

Emma Chambers
Paul Nash
Tate Publishing
ISBN 978-1-849764919 (PB) 978-1-849764353 (HB)
pp192 col 180 pb £24.99 hb £30

Quintin Colville with Kate Williams
Emma Hamilton: Seduction and Celebrity
Thames & Hudson
ISBN 978-0-500252208
hb pp288 col 225 £29.95

Antony Griffiths
The Print before Photography: An Introduction to European Printmaking 1550–1820
The British Museum Press
ISBN 978-0-714126951
hb pp560 col 300+ £60

Anne Robbins, ed, with contributions by Alison Goudie, Sarah Herring, Harriet O’Neill & Christopher Riopelle
Painters’ Paintings from Freud to Van Dyck
The National Gallery Company Limited distributed by Yale University Press
ISBN 978-1-857096118
pb pp96 col 70 £14.95

Jeff Watkin, ed, with contributions from Louise Campbell,
Helen Cobby, Alice Swatton
Concealment & Deception: The Art of the Camofleurs of Leamington Spa 1939–1945
Warwick District Council
ISBN 978-1-872940083
pb pp123 col 84 £8

James Stourton
Kenneth Clark: Life, Art & Civilisation
William Collins
ISBN 978-0-007493418
hb pp496 bw 2 col 30 £30

Susan Rather
The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial and Early National Era
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 978-0-300214611
hb pp316 bw 80 col 100 £50

Eleanor Hughes, ed
Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting
Yale University Press
ISBN 978-0-300221572
hb pp312 col 312 £45

David Adshead and David AHB Taylor et al.
Hardwick Hall: A Great Old Castle of Romance
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
978-0-300218909
hb pp402 bw 20 col 320 £75

Clare Browne, Glyn Davies and MA Michael, eds, with the assistance of Michaela Zöschg
English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum
Yale University Press in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 978-0-300222005
hb pp324 bw 100 col 160 £40

Eric Shanes+
Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years 1775–1815
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 978-0-300140651
hb pp552 col 350 £85

Mark Hallett, Nigel Llewellyn, Martin Myrone
Court, Country, City: British Art and Architecture, 1660–1735
Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 978-0-300214802
hb pp544 col 194 £55

Patricia McCarthy
Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland
Publisher Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 978-0-300218862
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