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This multi-disciplinary volume offers a unique portrait of Jamaican culture from the beginning of British rule in 1655 to the aftermath of emancipation in the 1840s. It offers new perspectives on art, music, and performance in Afro-Jamaican society and on the Jewish diaspora in the Caribbean.

Distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theater, and art explore the political and cultural implications of the Restoration court’s transgressive character. With particular reference to the perception and representation of women, it offers a varied examination of topics including popular prints and broadsheets; court masque; poetry and painted portraits; and the operation ...

A beautifully illustrated look at Joseph Wright's remarkable impact on the artistic climate of the city of Liverpool, its cultural institutions, and its artists.

Gathering together a selection of paintings Howard Hodgkin has completed over the last fifteen years, this book presents the work of one of the most important artists working in Britain today. Essays by Richard Morphet and Anthony Lane complete the volume.

Canaletto’s popularity with British admirers drew him away from his native Venice to England in 1746, and his visit became a productive nine-year stay. This beautiful book focuses on the artist’s English sojourn, reproducing his paintings and drawings of London as well as the Italian and imaginary views he painted for enthusiastic patrons.

Paul Mellon (1907--1999), founder of the Yale Center for British Art, was an unparalleled collector in his field. This catalogue honors him by showcasing 150 of the most important works of art, rare books, and manuscripts in the Center’s distinguished collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

This catalogue features a selection of outstanding watercolors from the collection of Paul Mellon (1907--1999) at the Yale Center for British Art. Works by leading artists in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, and J. M.W. Turner, represent the development of watercolor painting from the mid-eighteenth century to its apogee in the mid-nineteenth.

America is home to some of the world’s most famous British paintings. This beautiful book features 85 of these great British paintings, dating from the sixteenth century to the present. The book reproduces each painting in full color and offers a fresh account of the history of painting in Britain and of anglophilia and the collecting of British art in the United States.

Within the Moscow Kremlin Museums, one of the world’s greatest collections of English sixteenth- and seventeenth-century silver is housed. This superbly illustrated book features rare and historically important silver pieces that exemplify the developing commercial and diplomatic ties between Russia and England of the time.

This lovely book brings together the cottage door paintings and essays that discuss Gainsborough’s departure from the more naturalistic style of his earlier career and that place his new concern with sentimentalism and artificiality in the context of sensibility and the growing interest in expressive, even sensational, visual spectacles. To this end, contributors to the volume investigate ne...

This book examines the intertwined developments of papermaking and the art of watercolor painting in the eighteenth-century.

Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute in Britain and North America, this groundbreaking book reveals the profound significance of everyday objects.

This lavishly illustrated book presents eighty paintings from the glorious collection of the Yale Center for British Art. Along with an account of Paul Mellon's lifelong passion for British culture and his contributions to the formation and housing of this collection, the book includes brief essays on each painting—works that span five centuries and represent such leading British artists as ...

This handsome interdisciplinary book presents nineteenth-century photographs of Indian architecture, examining them not just as records of an architectural past but as complex artifacts of the cultural and political forces shaping colonial India. With a wide array of photographs, many rare or little known, the book offers a fresh view of colonial images seen through postcolonial eyes.

This volume analyzes the arts of the Middle Ages and Reformation across all media––painting, sculpture, architecture, book illumination, frescoes, embroidery, printing, carving, and stained glass.

In this volume, international experts examine art in Britain from the post-Reformation period through the emergence of the British Empire and the birth of the modern era.

This volume discusses the transition of British art from the High Victorian period to modernism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and the Young British Artists of the 1990s.

Written by a team of international scholars, these 3 handsomely illustrated books provide a critical overview of British art from early Saxon times to the present and discuss its art historical significance.

Largely overlooked for over a century, the landscape paintings and legacy of Romantic artist David Cox now gain well-earned attention in this beautifully illustrated volume.

A gorgeously illustrated book that is the first to explore the impact of Darwin’s ideas about nature and human history on nineteenth-century artists from Frederic Church to Claude Monet

An account of the architecture, design, and circumstances of the commission and building of the Yale Center for British Art, Louis Kahn’s final masterpiece.