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
Griselda Pollock reintroduces an important feminist forerunner in this new, full-colour setting of Helen Rosenau’s 1944 book Woman in Art
A major new history of architecture in Britain and Ireland that looks at buildings and their construction in detail while revealing the cultural, material, political, and economic contexts that made them
A groundbreaking account of printmaking in Britain that explores the medium’s intersection with radical politics
A bold new study of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Victorian photographs, charting the legacy of colonialism following the 1857 Indian Uprising
How a wave of exotic botanical imports from across Britain's empire shaped its gardens.
The first comprehensive exploration of Aubrey Williams’s art, revealing cross-cultural transformations connecting Caribbean, British, and Atlantic histories
A vivid account of the atmosphere and culture of postwar Britain, explored through the image of the British Blonde
Revealing the materials and craftsmanship that shaped the look of eighteenth-century architecture in Britain and Ireland