This year is the centenary of the bir th of the Centre’sbenefactor Paul Mellon and it is being marked by a seriesof exhibitions focussing on his life as a collector andphilanthropist. On 17th April the Yale Center for BritishAr t opened the exhibition Paul Mellon’s LegacyA Passion for British Art (until 29 July) which will transferto open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on20th October. At the Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgePaul Mellon A Cambridge Tribute will open on PaulMellon’s bir thday (11th June) and a few weeks later
(on 11th July) the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts inRichmond, Virginia will open the exhibition Great BritishWatercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the YaleCenter for British Art (until 30th September) which willtransfer to the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg,Russia for an opening on 23rd October. Many otherinstitutions such as the National Galler y of Ar t inWash ington , D.C . are or gan is ing events to mar kMr Mellon’s centenary and the most important of theseare listed on the following page.
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Paul Mellon Centre exhibitions
Yale Center for British Art‘Paul Mellon’s Legacy: a Passion forBritish Art’ (18 April-29 July). Around150 works from the collection. Travelsto the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Sterling Memorial LibraryYale University‘Paul Mellon (1907-99):Yale Student,Friend, and Benefactor’. Draws onuniversity archives to focus on hisundergraduate years.
Beinecke Rare Bookand Manuscript LibraryYale University‘The Road to Yorktown’ (18 June-31August) . Se lec t ions f rom theRochambeau Paper s and Fami lyCartographic Archive given by PaulMellon in 1992.
Yale University Art Gallery‘Art for Yale:Acquisitions for a NewCentury’ (18 September-13 January2008). More than 275 works donated,promised, or purchased in a specialcampaign launched in 1998.
National Gallery of ArtWashington, DC‘The First Impressionist: EugéneBoudin’ (until 5 August). Includes 40paintings and works from the gallery’scollection, mainly gifts from Mr and MrsPaul Mellon. Travels to the VirginiaMuseum of Fine Arts (14 November-27January 2008).
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,Richmond‘Géricault to Bonnard: RecentGifts from the Mellon Collection’(opens 13 June); ‘Great BritishWatercolors from the Paul MellonCollection at the Yale Center forBritish Art’ (11 July -30 September);‘The First Impressionist: EugéneBoudin’ (14 November-27 January2008).
National Sporting LibraryMiddleburg, Virginia‘Reflections on a Life with Horses:Paintings by Sir Alfred Munningsfrom the Paul Mellon Collection atthe Yale Center for British Art’ (20April-March 2008).
The Harrison Institute andSmall Special CollectionsLibrary, University of VirginiaCharlottesville‘Treasures from Paul Mellon’sLibrary’ (15 May-January 2008).
State Hermitage MuseumSt Petersburg‘Great British Watercolors from thePaul Mellon Collection atthe Yale Center for British Art’(23 October-13 January 2008).Co-organised by the Yale Center andthe Virginia Museum of Fine Arts inRichmond.
Royal Academy of ArtsLondon‘A Passion for British Art, 1700-1850: Paul Mel lon’s Legacy ’(20 October-27 January 2008).Around 150 masterpieces from the YaleCenter for British Art.
Tate Britain, LondonA display on the golden age ofBritish sporting art (15 October-January 2008). Includes works byGeorge Stubbs, Benjamin Marshall and
Jaques-Laurent Agasse given to themuseum by Mellon through the BritishSporting Art Trust. Coincides with theexhibition at the Royal Academy.
Paul Mellon Centre for Studiesin British Art, LondonThe Centre will support programmingassociated with the Royal Academy’sshow.
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox LondonWorks from the Mellon Bank Collectionto coincide with the Royal AcademyExhibition.
Fitzwilliam MuseumUniversity of Cambridge‘Paul Mellon: a Cambridge Tribute’(12 June-23 September). Works fromMellon’s collection from the Yale Centerfor British Art juxtaposed with objectsfrom the Fitzwil l iam to i l lustrateMellon’s ties to the United Kingdom.The museum wil l also host acelebration on Mellon’s bir thday,11 June 2007.
Christie’s, King Street LondonLectures in conjunction withBritish Art Week Autumn(15-22 November) with JohnBaskett, friend and advisor, on‘Paul Mellon as I Knew Him’(13 November) and DuncanRobinson, director of the FitzwilliamMuseum in Cambridge and formerdirector of the Yale Center forBritish Art, on ‘Paul Mellon, theCollector’ (20 November).
‘Paul Mellon: In His OwnWords’Screening at the National Galleryof Art, Washington DC (9 June)and the Yale Center for British Art(25 May-end July). A 50-minutedocumentary film produced for PBS byJoseph Krakora, chief of external andinternational affairs at the NationalGaller y of Art.
Paul Mellon Centenary: selected shows and events
The Paul Mellon Centre Staff Director of Studies: Brian Allen. Assistant Director for Academic Activities: Martin Postle. Assistant Director for Administration: Kasha Jenkinson. Librarian: Emma Floyd.
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A three-day international conferenceat the National Maritime Museum,Greenwich, London, supported bythe Paul Mellon Centre for Studiesin British Art.
Since the development of the publicart gallery and museum in the early19th century, art and the collectingof art in Britain have been closelylinked to the articulation of nationalidentity and the construction ofnat ionhood. They have thusinterleaved with debates on nationalmorality, class, race and gender, andthe social and civic functions ofculture. In recent years ‘cultures ofcollecting’ have been subjects ofconsiderable study in art history,museology and other forms ofcultural studies. This internationalconference will build on thisresearch, drawing together a rangeof academics and curators fromnat iona l and i n terna t iona linstitutions, to consider the issuessurrounding art collecting and
nationhood across a variety oflocations and cultures.
It will also develop these issues awayfrom a purely Eurocentric focusupon the h istor y of nat ionformation and the role of art andcol lect ing in the evolut ion ofEuropean nationalism, to explorethe significance of art collectingwithin the history of empire, and foremergent nation-states outside theEuropean arena. It will also confrontthe complex and contentious issueswithin those larger histories, of therole of war and looting, and of artand its collecting as both victim andaccomplice of international conflictand conquest.
The conference will complement‘Art for the Nation’, the recentlyopened display in the Queen’sHouse of the various oil paintingscol lect ions that make up theNational Maritime Museum’s totalholding. One of the principal aims of
the exhibition is to consider thehistory of these collections andhow they relate to the historicaldefinitions of Britain’s maritime andimperial identity.
Full details of the conferenceprogramme, including speakers andpaper topics, can be found at theNational Maritime Museum website:www.nmm.ac.uk/conferences
Registration informationFul l reg istrat ion fee : £60.00.A number of student bursaries areavailable supported by the PaulMellon Centre for Studies in BritishArt . For fur ther in format ionon bursaries contact Lucy Nixon atthe Paul Mellon Centre on 020 75800311. To book your place on thesymposium, contact Mrs JanetNorton, Research Administrator,Nat iona l Mar i t ime Museum,Greenwich LONDON SE10 9NFTel: 020 8312 6716 Fax: 020 83126592 E-mail: [email protected]
State of the Art:Collecting art and national formation c.1800-2000Wednesday 18 July to Friday 20 July 2007
Paul Mellon Centre conference
Fruits of Exchange:England, Scotland and ArchitectureA Conference at the Edinburgh College of Art (14-15 September) and thePaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (5-6 October)
The tercentenary of the Act ofUnion offers an ideal opportunity tolook at relations between Englandand Scotland in architecture. Thistopic will be addressed in a pair ofconferences and tours, focusing onarchitectural exchanges betweenthe two nations from the MiddleAges to the present day, and acrossthe spectrum from royal palacesto garden suburbs . The f i r s tconference, to be held in Edinburghon 14-15 September 2007, wil l
examine English influences onScottish architecture, followed bya second conference in London on5-6 October 2007, which willconcentrate on Scottish influenceson English architecture. In eachcase a day of talks and debate willbe fo l lowed by a day of v is i ts .The events are being jo int lyorganised by Ian Campbell of theEdinburgh Col lege of Ar t , andAndrew Saint, General Editor ofThe Survey of London.
Conference ProgrammeFriday 14 SeptemberEdinburgh College of Art
9.00 Registration
9.15 Chair (Alistair Rowan)Opening Remarks
9.25 Charles McKeanSpeculations on Britisharchitecture in Scotland
9.50 Richard FawcettEnglish influence on Scottishchurch architecture in the15th and 16th centuries
10.15 Geoffrey StellArchitecture with and withoutfrontiers: the Anglo-ScottishBorders 1560-1707
10.40 Coffee
11.00 Ian CampbellArchitectural taste and theScottish aristocracy, 1575-1725
11.25 Chris WhatleyThe Union of 1707, theScottish nation and the British state
11.50 James SimpsonSir John Clerk and the Unionfrom an architectural perspective
12.15 Doreen GroveThe military architecture of‘North Britain’, 1650 to1850
12.40 Lunch
1.40 John LowreyEdinburgh New Town:influences from London
2.05 Gavin StampSir Gilbert Scott in Scotland:what, where and why?
2.30 John SandersScottish Nationalism in the Late Victorian Church
2.55 Julian Holder &Lou RosenburgA road too far? Cultural adaptation and the GardenCity ideal in Scotland,1900-1930
3.20 Tea
4.00 Discussion
5.00-6.00 Wine Reception
Saturday 15 September Coach tourCoach will leave Edinburgh Collegeof Art at 9.00 a.m. and return toEdinburgh Waverley Station andCollege of Art by 5.30 p.m.
Proposed itinerary will include:St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral,Edinburgh (Scott); Dalmeny House(Wilkins); St Salvador, Dundee(Bodley); Albert Institute Dundee(Scott); Perth Bridge (Smeaton);The Binns (Burn); Linlithgow parishchurch.
Friday 5 OctoberPaul Mellon Centre for Studiesin British Art, London
9.15 Registration
9.30 Andrew SaintIntroduction:The Farfrae factor
9.55 Aonghus MacKechnieSir David Cunningham ofRobertland: the Scottisharchitectural scene and James VI & I’s ‘MagnaBritannia’
10.20 Margaret Stewart‘Metaphysical Scots’: Scottishintellectual and architecturalcreativity in the 18th Century
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Stana NenadicPatronage and professionalidentities: Scottish architectsin 18th century London
11.40 Alistair RowanThe Adam brothers: buildersfrom North Britain
12.15 Peter Guillery Scottish Dock Builders in LateGeorgian London
12.40 Discussion
1.10 Lunch
2.15 Ted RuddockEngineers southbound after1760
2.40 Paul BradleyWilliam Burn, Scottish export
3.05 David WalkerEdwardian Scots and publicbuilding in London
3.30 Tea
4.00 Miles GlendinningRobert Matthew and his circle
4.25 Final Discussion
5.00-6.00 Wine reception
Saturday 6 OctoberCoach tour Meet at Tower Hill Station at 9.30am. After a visit to St KatharineDocks, coach wil l depart fromTower Hill at 10 a.m. returning inthe afternoon to King’s CrossStation and the Paul Mellon Centreby 5.30 pm.
Proposed itinerary will include:St Katharine Docks (Telford); 99Aldwych (Burnet); St Mary le Strand(Gibbs); Scottish Church, CrownCourt (Balfour & Turner); ChandosHouse (Robert Adam);KnightsbridgeBarracks (Spence); Cadogan Square(Shaw, Stevenson, Young); ChelseaTown Hall (Brydon); Oakhill Road,Putney (William Young); SudbrookPark, Petersham (Gibbs); St Michael& All Angels, Bedford Park (Shaw).
Registration andFee Information
Full Conference:Edinburgh and London 14-15September and 5-6 October £90
One conference venue:Edinburgh 14-15 September orLondon 5-6 October £50
One conference (lectures only):Edinburgh 14 September orLondon 5 October £35
The conference fee (Friday 14September and Friday 5 October)includes tea, coffee, lunch and winereception. Part ic ipants wi l l beexpected to provide or purchasetheir own lunch on the coach trips(Saturday 15 September andSaturday 6 October). Please note:for practical purposes numbers onthe coach tours may be limited.
To register for the conferenceplease forward a cheque and a selfaddress stamped envelope to LucyNixon,Administrative Assistant, PaulMellon Centre for Studies in BritishArt, 16 Bedford Square, LondonWC1B 3JA Tel: 020 7580 0311 Fax:020 7636 6730 [email protected] .ac .uk
This conference, organised jointlywith Harvard University’s Centerfor Renaissance Studies,Villa I Tatti,wil l focus on the artistic l inksbetween the early Tudor courtsand Medicean Florence. The mainemphasis will be on the sculpturalprojects which galvanised theattention of Henry VII and HenryVIII.The architectural context fordecorat ive sculpture wi l l behighlighted together with theparallel, growing interest for paintingdocumented through importedworks, as well as by the presence ofFlorentine painters in London.Research in these areas has beengathering momentum in the 1980sand 1990s but there is still a wealthof documentary evidence in archivesin both the UK and Italy awaitingcareful study.This conference is thefirst attempt to gather British,American and I ta l ian scholarstogether to explore the progressof Renaissance, especially Florentine,artistic themes in England. Afteran opening address by Steven Gunnon the evening of 19th Septemberand a day of papers on Thursday20th September, the final day willbe spent visiting relevant sites inFlorence.
Wednesday 19th September2007 17:30 Opening remarks byBrian Allen and Joseph Connors
18:00 Plenary lecture bySteven Gunn(Merton College, Oxford)Anglo-Florentine contacts 1485-1547:political and social contexts
19:00-20:00Reception in the garden atI Tatti for the general public
09.30 Cinzia Sicca(Università di Pisa)Giorgio Vasari and the progress ofItalian art in early sixteenth-centuryEngland
10:00 Alan P. Darr(Detroit Institute of Arts)Pietro Torrigiano and his sculpturein Henrician England: sources andinfluences
10:30 Louis Waldman(University of Texas)Benedetto da Rovezzano in Englandand after
11:30 Francesco Caglioti(Università Federico II, Napoli)Benedetto da Rovezzano in Inghilterra:novità sulla tomba del cardinaleWolsey e poi di Enrico VIII
12:00 Giancarlo Gentilini andTommaso Mozzati (Università di Perugia)Baccio Bandinelli e il progretto dellatomba per Enrico VIII
12:30 Discussion
Afternoon Session chaired by Brian Allen
14:30 Philip Lindley(University of Leicester)Why were Italian sculptors successfulin early sixteenth-century England?
15:00 Maurice Howard(University of Sussex)Italian architects and militaryengineers under royal and courtierpatronage in the reign of Henry VIII
15:30 Thomas Campbell(Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York)From Papal Rome to Tudor London:The context and significance of HenryVIII’s Raphael workshop tapestries
16:30 Susan Foister(National Gallery, London)Antonio Toto and the market forItalian painting in early Tudor England
17:00 Martin Biddle(Hertford College, Oxford)The Palace of Nonsuch
17.30 Final discussion chairedby Joseph Connors
Friday 21st September (site visits)MorningSan Salvi, Cappella Pandolfini allaBadia, Museo del BargelloAfternoonSanta Trinita, Santi Apostoli, IlCarmine and the Uffizi
Registration
Attendance at the conference is freeof charge and does not requireadvance booking. The Villa I Tattiw e b s i t e c a n b e f o u n d a twww.itatt i . i t and includesinformation on the Center, calendarof events and directions for gettingto I Tatti.
Pietro Torrigiano, Tomb of Henry VII, 1517,Westminster Abbey, London (deta i l )
Artistic Links between the Early Tudor Courtsand Medicean Florence19-21 September 2007 at Villa I Tatti, Florence
Dr Daniel Abramson to prepare his book Architecturein the Age of Obsolescence
Dr Lene Østermark-Johansen to prepare her bookFrom Front to Back: Walter Pater and the Language ofSculpture
Dr Banmali Tandan to prepare his book BritishArchitecture in Calcutta in the Georgian Age: An IllustratedGazetteer & Its Evolution in an Aesthetic and Social Context
Dr Volker Welter to prepare his book Architecturewithout Quality? - Ernst L. Freud and Bourgeois Modernism inArchitecture
Rome Fellowships
Dr Viccy Coltman for research in Rome for her bookMarble Mania: The art history and historiography of sculpturein Britain since 1760
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Dr Tracy Anderson to prepare her book The Crown andthe Jewel: Images of royalty and viceroyalty in the spectacle ofimperial Britain and India
Dr Anne Bordeleau to prepare three journal articlesfrom her thesis on Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863)
Dr Eleanor Fraser Stansbie to prepare three journalarticles from her thesis on Richard Dadd (1817-1886)
Dr Alla Myzelev to prepare three journal articles fromher thesis on Peasant Arts Revitalization in England:Histories and Meanings
Dr Morna O’Neill to prepare her book Walter Crane:The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics and an exhibitioncatalogue 'Art and Labour's Cause is One': Walter Crane andManchester, 1880-1900
Dr Richard Williams to prepare his book TheReformation of an Icon: Images of Christ in Early ModernEngland
Junior Fellowships
Jeremy Melius to conduct research in the UnitedKingdom for his doctoral thesis Art History and theInvention of Botticelli
Nathaniel Stein to conduct research in the UnitedKingdom for his doctoral thesis London in the Viewer:British Stereoscopy and Urban Embodiments, 1830-1880
Katharine Williams to conduct research in the UnitedKingdom for her doctoral thesis A study of themes in thearchitecture, symbolism and experience of Great Warmemorials of the 1920s
Shundana Yusaf to conduct research in the UnitedKingdom for her doctoral thesis Wireless Sites: Radio andArchitecture in Britain (1927-1945)
Educational Programme Grants
Leeds City Art Gallery grant towards a series oflectures and workshops (September 2007) linked to anExhibition of Oil Prints by George Baxter
University of Leeds grant towards a conference atShugborough, Staffordshire (30th March-1st April 2007)on ‘Shugborough - A Rediscovered Centre of Eighteenth-century Learning.Thomas Anson, James 'Athenian' Stuartand their contemporaries’
University of Liverpool grant towards a symposium atthe Walker Art Gallery and Merseyside MaritimeMuseum on ‘Joseph Wright of Derby’ (16th-17thNovember 2007)
support for scholarship in British Art awards
Grant Awards At the March meeting of the Centre’s Advisory Council, the followinggrants were awarded:
Research Support Grants
Dr Katherine Acheson for research in London onVisual Rhetoric and Seventeenth-Century English PrintCulture
Elizabeth Bishop for research in London on thearchitectural infrastructure of Empire: the Britishmitigation of imports via the warehouses of London'sDocklands
Olga Borodkina for research in the United Kingdomon the Aesthetic Movement: Literature and Art Criticismto Visual Arts
Dr Antonio Brucculeri for research in the UnitedKingdom on the Urban Approach of Edwin Lutyensbetween Architectural Composition and Town Planning:A Study in the War Years, 1938-1943
Dr Elizabeth Darling for research in the UnitedKingdom on the Work and Life of Wells Coates,Architect-Engineer
Dr Bianca De Divitiis for research in St Petersburg onEighteenth-century British Collectors in Naples: A NewSource for the Acquisition of Antique Sculpture
Dr Robert Folkenflik for research in the UnitedKingdom on Portraits of Samuel Johnson
Amy Frost for research in Scotland on Commissionsundertaken by the architect Henry Edmund Goodridge(1797-1864) for the 10th Duke of Hamilton
Helen Gyger for research in the United Kingdom fororal history interviews with John F.C. Turner andChristopher Alexander
Alistair Kwan for research in the United Kingdom onBuilding Science: architecture and the early modern studyof nature
Professor Susan Morrison for research in the UnitedKingdom on Images of Excrement in Late MedievalEngland
Dr John Potvin for research in London onDomesticating Passion: Sir Cedric Morris and ArthurLett-Haines and the Art of Modern Living
Matthew Woodworth for research in the UnitedKingdom on the Thirteenth-century Choir and Transeptsof Beverley Minster
Sigrid De Jong for research in the United Kingdom onRediscovering Architecture. Paestum in Eighteenth-century Architectural Thought
Richard Nieman for research in the United Kingdomand France on Monuments to God and Man:The MinorCruciform Churches of Anglo-Norman Sussex and theNew Norman Aristocracy
Catherine Walden for research in the United Kingdomon Redemption and Remembrance:The English EpiscopalTomb in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
The next application for Curatorial Research Grants,Publications Grants (Author and Publisher), ResearchSupport Grants and Educational Programme Grants is 15September 2007.
For further details please visit:www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/support.htmlor contact The Grants Administrator [email protected]
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DR MARTIN POSTLEOn 1st March Martin Postlejo i ned the Pau l Me l lonCentre as Assistant Directorfor Academic Act iv i t ies .Dr Postle trained at theUniversity of Nottingham,the Cour tauld Institute ofAr t, and Birkbeck College,University of London. From1992 to 1998 he wasDirector of the LondonCentre of the University of Delaware and AssociateProfessor of Art History. In 1998 Martin joined the TateGaller y as Senior Curator, and was, until he took uphis present appointment, Head of British Ar t to 1900.He has published extensively on eighteenth- andnineteenth-centur y Br it ish Ar t. His books includeSir Joshua Reynolds. The Subject Pictures (CambridgeUniversity Press 1995), Gainsborough (Tate and PrincetonUniversity Press 2002), and, with David Mannings, SirJoshua Reynolds. A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings(Yale University Press 2000). Dr Postle’s exhibitionsinclude The Ar tist ’s Model. Its role in Br it ish Ar t fromLely to Etty (Kenwood and Nottingham 1991, withIlaria Bignamini), Angels and Urchins. The Fancy Picture in18th-Centur y Br itish Art (Kenwood and Nottingham1998), The Artist’s Model: From Etty to Spencer (Kenwood,Nottingham and York 1999, with William Vaughan), Art ofthe Garden.The Garden in British Art, 1800 to the PresentDay (Tate Britain, Belfast and Manchester 2004, withNicholas Alfrey and Stephen Daniels), and JoshuaReynolds. The Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain 2005).Dr Post le ’s most recent publ icat ion is Model andSupermodel. The artist’s model in British art and culture(Manchester University Press 2006, co-edited with JaneDesmarais and William Vaughan). His current projectsinclude work on Gainsborough and Reynolds inRichmond upon Thames, Paul Sandby, and an exhibitionon Johan Zoffany for Tate Britain and the Yale Centerfor British Ar t, in 2010.
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A BIOGRAPHICALDICTIONARY OFBRITISH ARCHITECTS1600-1840Fourth Edition
Howard Colvin
The authoritative and nowclassic work of referenceon the history of Britisharchitecture containsbiographical information onsome 2,000 architects whopractised in England,Scotland and Wales fromthe time of Inigo Jones(1573-1652) to that ofWilliam Burn (1789-1870)and Sir Charles Barry(1795-1860).This newedition is the fourth ofwhat began in 1954 asA Biographical Dictionaryof English Architects1600-1840, and 62 newlyidentified architects andabout 70 buildings havebeen added since theprevious edition.
Sir Howard Colvin isemeritus fellow of St John’sCollege, Oxford. He is alsothe author of Architectureand the After Life andUnbuilt Oxford.
June 296pp. 234x156mm.ISBN 978-0-300-12508-5£75.00
GEORGE STUBBS,PAINTER Catalogue Raisonné
Judy Egerton
George Stubbs (1724-1806)is now rightly recognised asone of the greatest andmost original artists of theeighteenth century. Hisprofound understanding ofanatomy and his uncannyability to translate the studyof nature into remarkablybalanced compositions markhim out from otherpractitioners in the field ofanimal painting. His mostfrequent commissions werefor paintings of horses, dogsand wild animals, butawareness that such subjectswere rated low in theartistic hierarchy did notdeter him, throughout aresolute and hard-workingcareer, from producingimages that invariably arrestattention and frequentlystrike a deeply poetic note.
More than any other painterhe steadily anduningratiatingly celebratesEnglish sporting and countrylife and reveals himself, as inhis ‘incidental’ portraits ofjockeys and grooms, as amost perceptive observer ofdifferent levels of socialbehaviour.
In preparation for manyyears, this is the firstcomplete catalogue ofStubbs’s paintings anddrawings.The full catalogueentries are preceded by anin depth study of Stubbs’sart and career that sets hiswork in context.
Judy Egerton is the leadingauthority on Stubbs andworked both at the Tateand National Gallery.Thiscatalogue was researchedand written during hertenure as Senior ResearchFellow at the Paul MellonCentre for Studies in BritishArt from 1998-2006.
September 700pp.330x246mm.30 b/w + 485 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-30-12509-2£85.00
WAR PAINTArt, War, State andIdentity in Britain,1939–1945
Brian Foss
In this groundbreakingexamination of British warart during the SecondWorld War, Brian Fossdelves deeply into what artmeant to Britain and itspeople at a time when thenation’s very survival wasunder threat. Foss probesthe impact of war art onthe relations between art,state patronage and publicinterest in art, and heconsiders how this periodof duress affected thetrajectory of BritishModernism. Supported bysome two hundredillustrations and extensivearchival research, the bookoffers the richest, mostnuanced view of mid-
century art and artists inBritain yet written.
The author focuses closelyon Sir Kenneth Clark’sinfluential War Artists’Advisory Committee, andexplores topics rangingfrom censorship to artists’finances, from the depictionof women as war workersto the contributions of warart to evolving notions ofnational identity andBritishness. Lively andinsightful, the book addsnew dimensions to thestudy of British art andcultural history.
Brian Foss is Professor,Department of Art History,Concordia University,Montreal. In addition toteaching and publishing, hehas recently co-curated aretrospective exhibition ofworks by Canadian artistEdwin Holgate.
July 264pp. 270x217mm.175 b/w + 35 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-10890-3£35.00
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SPECTACULARFLIRTATIONSViewing the Actress inBritish Art and Theatre1768–1820
Gill Perry
During the Georgian periodthere was a remarkableproliferation of seductivevisual imagery and writtenaccounts of femaleperformers. Focusing on theclose relationship betweenthe dramatic and visual artsat this time, this beautifuland stimulating bookexplores popular ideas ofthe actress as coquette,‘whore’, celebrity, muse andcreative agent, charting herimportant symbolic role incontemporary attempts toprofessionalise both thetheatre and the practice offine art.
Gill Perry analyses howthese identities wereconstructed and challengedthrough portraits andexhibition and theatrereviews. Using a concept of‘flirtation’ to illuminateeighteenth-centuryperceptions of femalesexuality, theatricality andsocial mobility, Perry arguesthat a fashionable culture of‘dressing up’ and flirtatiousmasquerade provided late
eighteenth-centuryactresses with manypossibilities forunconventional role playing,both on and off stage. SarahSiddons, Dorothy Jordan,Mary Robinson, FrancesAbington and ElizabethFarren are among her castof leading ladies for whomportrait commissions in rolecould act as publicadvertisements, and asforms of social and artisticre-positioning. She showshow artists such asGainsborough, Reynolds,Hoppner or Lawrenceproduced complex imagesof female performers asfashion icons, coquettes,dignified queens or creativeartists.The result is a richinterdisciplinary study of theGeorgian actress.
Gill Perry is Professor ofArt History at The OpenUniversity.
September 256pp.280x230mm. 85 b/w + 50colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-13544-2£40.00
ART FOR ART’S SAKEAestheticism inVictorian Painting
Elizabeth Prettejohn
This book is the first toexplore the distinctive roleof painting in the debatessurrounding the notion of‘art for art’s sake’ andAestheticism in VictorianEngland. In the Londoncircles of Dante GabrielRossetti and FredericLeighton, this artisticproblem became a sharedconcern: if art is notcreated for the sake ofpreaching a moral lesson, or
supporting a political cause,or making a fortune, or anyother objective, what mightart be? Art historianElizabeth Prettejohn tracesthe emergence of thedebates in the 1860s andtheir development into the1870s, focusing especially onthe principal protagonists ofthe Aesthetic Movementand their paintings - someof the most haunting andmemorable images inmodern art.
At the heart of the bookare fresh and detailedinterpretations of majorpaintings by Rossetti, JamesMcNeill Whistler, Leighton,Edward Burne-Jones, AlbertMoore and SimeonSolomon. Prettejohn alsoinvestigates theunderpinnings of themovement in French andGerman aesthetics and thewritings of its two greatcritics, Algernon CharlesSwinburne and WalterPater.The English painters’search for the formula tobest express the idea of ‘artfor art’s sake’ was a unifiedand powerful artisticundertaking, the bookdemonstrates, and theAesthetic Movement madeimportant contributions tothe history of modern art.
Elizabeth Prettejohn isProfessor of History of Artat the University of Bristol.
September 320pp. 256x192mm.85 b/w + 40 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-13549-7£35.00
PICTURING ANIMALS INBRITAIN 1750–1850
Diana Donald
From fine art paintings bysuch artists as Stubbs andLandseer to zoologicalillustrations and popularprints, a vast array ofanimal images was createdin Britain during thecentury from 1750 to1850.This highly originalbook investigates the richmeanings of these visualrepresentations as well asthe ways in which animalswere actually used andabused. What DianaDonald discovers in thisfascinating study is a deepand unresolvedambivalence that lies at theheart of human attitudestoward animals.
The author brings to lightdichotomies in humanthinking about animalsthroughout this key period:awestruck with the beautyand spirit of wild animals,people neverthelessdesired to capture andtame them; the belief thatother species are inferiorwas firmly held, yet at thesame time animals instories and fables weregiven human attributes;though laws against animalcruelty were introduced,the overworking of horsesand the allure of sporthunting persisted. Animals
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are central in culturalhistory, Donald concludes,and compelling questionsabout them - then andnow - remain unanswered.
Diana Donald wasformerly Head of theDepartment of History ofArt and Design atManchester MetropolitanUniversity. She is authorof the prize-winning book,The Age of Caricature:Satirical Prints in the Ageof George III, published byYale.
HENRY VIII AND THEART OF MAJESTYTapestries at the TudorCourt
Thomas P. Campbell
Luxurious, beautiful andportable, tapestry was thepre-eminent art form ofthe Tudor court. Henry VIIIamassed an unrivalledcollection over the courseof his reign, and the authorweaves the history of thismagnificent collection intothe life of its owner with anengaging narrative style.Now largely dispersed or
destroyed, Henry’sextensive inventory is herereassembled and revealshow, through tapestry,Henry identified himselfwith historic, religious andmythological figures, puttingEngland in dialogue - andcompetition - with theleading courts of EarlyModern Europe whilepromoting his own religiousand political agendas athome. Campbell’s originalaccount sheds new light onTudor political and artisticculture and the court’sresponse to Renaissanceaesthetic ideals.
Sumptuously illustratedwith newly commissionedphotographs, this stunningre-creation of Europe’sgreatest tapestry collectionchallenges thepredominantly text-drivenhistories of the period andoffers a fascinating newperspective on the life ofHenry VIII.Thomas P.Campbell is Curator in theDepartment of EuropeanSculpture and DecorativeArts and SupervisingCurator of the AntonioRatti Textile Center at TheMetropolitan Museum ofArt. He is the principalauthor of Tapestry in theRenaissance: Art andMagnificence and editor of Tapestry in the Baroque:
Threads of Splendor (YaleUniversity Press 2007).
October 440pp.280x215mm. 114 b/w +206 colour illus.ISBN 978-0-300-12234-3£45.00
DESIGN AND PLAN INTHE COUNTRY HOUSEFrom Castle Donjons toPalladian Boxes
Andor Gomme andAlison Maguire
The way a man thinksabout his day-to-day livingand the needs of hishousehold reveals a greatdeal about his ambitions, hisidea of himself, and his rolein the community. And hishouse or castle offers manyclues to his habits as well asthose of the members ofhis household.This intriguingbook explores theevolution of country houseplans throughout Britainand Ireland, from medievaltimes to the eighteenthcentury.With photographsand detailed architecturalplans of each of the 180houses under discussion, thebook presents a wholerange of new insights into
how these homes weredesigned and what theirvaried plans tell us aboutthe lives of their residents.
Starting with fortifiedmedieval tower houses, thebook traces patterns thatdeveloped and sometimesrepeated in country housedesign over the centuries. Itdiscusses who slept in thebedchambers, where foodwas prepared, how roomswere arranged for officialand private activities, whattowers signified, and more.Groundbreaking in itsdepth, the volume offers arare tour of country housesfor scholar and generalreader alike.
Andor Gomme is EmeritusProfessor of EnglishLiterature and ArchitecturalHistory, Keele University,and former chairman of theSociety of ArchitecturalHistorians of Great Britain.Alison Maguire is anindependent architecturalhistorian.
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www.yale.edu/ycba
Full details of the following exhibitions and programs can be found at www.yale.edu/ycba, by telephoning 001 203 432 2800, or by e-mailing [email protected]
exhib it ions at the center
Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British ArtThrough 29 July 2007Co-organized by the Yale Center and the Royal Academy of Arts
Jem Southam: Upton Pyne28 August–30 December 2007Organized in association with the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and His Worlds27 September–30 December 2007A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, copublished by the Yale Center in association with Yale University Press, New Haven (September 2007).
touring exhib it ions
Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art20 October 2007–27 January 2008, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art11 July–30 September 2007, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond23 October 2007–13 January 2008, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Reflections on a Life with Horses: Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art Through 29 March 2008, National Sporting Library, Middleburg, Virginia
sympos ium
The Legacies of Slavery and Emancipation: Jamaica in the Atlantic World1–3 November 2007Organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. For information and to register, please e-mail [email protected] or call 001 203 432 7192.
publ icat ions
In 2006 the Yale Center for British Art launched an expanded publica-tions program with Yale University Press. Recent titles published include Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art, by Matthew Hargraves, with an introduction by Scott Wilcox, copublished with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (April 2007); and Paul Mellon’s Legacy: A Passion for British Art, with essays by Brian Allen, John Baskett, Jules David Prown, William Reese, and Duncan Robinson, and catalogue entries by the Center’s curatorial staff, copublished with the Royal Academy of Arts, London (April 2007).
v is it ing fellows
July 2007Mia L. Bagneris, PhD candidate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University; Laura MacCulloch, PhD candidate, Collaborative PhD funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Birmingham, and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; Eckart Marchand, Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Reading
August 2007Jason LaFountain, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Frank G. Spicer III, PhD candidate, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University
August–September 2007Karin Leonhard, Assistant Professor, Institute of Art History, University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
September 2007Robert M. Colls, Professor, University of Leicester ; Catherine Walden, PhD candidate, McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia
October 2007Joseph Monteyne, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Art History, and Criticism, State University of New York at Stony Brook; Jenifer Neils, Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
November 2007Jordan Bear, PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; Catherine Roach, PhD candidate, Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
J. M. W. Turner, Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (detail), 1817–18,
oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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