A Companion to British Art: 1600 to the Present

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

Author Biography

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History at the University of Southampton. She edited the Wiley-Blackwell journal Art History and three Wiley-Blackwell series: New Interventions in Art History, Blackwell Companions to in Art History, and Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. She has published widely with Wiley-Blackwell, Routledge, and OUP. David Peters Corbett is Professor of History of Art and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia. He has published a number of books, and has received prizes from the Historians of British Art, College Art Association USA, and a Guardian book of the year award. He is the editor of the journal Art History.