This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history. A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art Combines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500 Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British art s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world

This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays writtenby leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensiveintroduction to British art history.* A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissionedessays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the historyof British art* Combines original research with a survey of existingscholarship and the state of the field* Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after1500* Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art ofthe eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of themost lively and innovative areas of art-historical study* Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emergedfrom recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, Britishart's relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationalityand the institutions of the British art world

List of Illustrations viiiAcknowledgements xiiiNotes on Contributors xivPart 1 Editors' Introduction 1Part 2 General 111 The "Englishness" of English Art Theory 13Mark A. Cheetham2 Modernity and the British 38Andrew Ballantyne3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60Janet WolffPart 3 Institutions 774 "Those Wilder Sorts of Painting": the Painted Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79Richard Johns5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies 105Colin Trodd6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and Modernism 131David Peters Corbett7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide 156Simon Faulkner8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the 1960s 180Jo ApplinPart 4 Nationhood 1999 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 201Cynthia Roman10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and Nation 220Julie F. Codell11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the Second World War 241Ben Highmore12 55° North 3° West: a Panorama from Scotland 265Tom Normand13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British Art: Lubaina Humid's "Revenge" 289Dorothy RowePart 5 Landscape 31514 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth Century 317Anne Helmreich15 Theories of the Picturesque 351Michael Charlesworth16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place-Making in England, c.1760-1830 373Tom Williamson17 Landscape Painting, c.1770-1840 397Sam Smiles18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin 422Dana ArnoldPart 6 Men and Women 44919 The Elizabethan Miniature 451Dympna Callaghan20 "The Crown and Glory of a Woman": Female Chastity in Eighteenth-Century British Art 473Kate Retford21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain 502Whitney Davis22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532Pamela M. FletcherIndex 552