Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii


Acknowledgements xiii


Notes on Contributors xiv


Part 1 Editors? Introduction 1


Part 2 General 11


1 The ?Englishness? of English Art Theory 13

Mark A. Cheetham


2 Modernity and the British 38

Andrew Ballantyne


3 English Art and Principled Aesthetics 60

Janet Wolff


Part 3 Institutions 77


4 ?Those Wilder Sorts of Painting?: the Painted
Interior in the Age of Antonio Verrio 79

Richard Johns


5 Nineteenth-Century Art Institutions and Academies 105

Colin Trodd


6 Crossing the Boundary: British Art across Victorianism and
Modernism 131

David Peters Corbett


7 British Pop Art and the High/Low Divide 156

Simon Faulkner


8 When Attitudes Became Formless: Art and Antagonism in the
1960s 180

Jo Applin


Part 4 Nationhood 199


9 Art and Nation in Eighteenth-Century Britain 201

Cynthia Roman


10 International Exhibitions: Linking Culture, Commerce, and
Nation 220

Julie F. Codell


11 Itinerant Surrealism: British Surrealism either side of the
Second World War 241

Ben Highmore


12 55° North 3° West: a Panorama from Scotland
265

Tom Normand


13 Retrieving, Remapping, and Rewriting Histories of British
Art: Lubaina Humid?s ?Revenge? 289

Dorothy Rowe


Part 5 Landscape 315


14 Defining, Shaping, and Picturing Landscape in the Nineteenth
Century 317

Anne Helmreich


15 Theories of the Picturesque 351

Michael Charlesworth


16 Landscape into Art: Painting and Place-Making in England,
c.1760?1830 373

Tom Williamson


17 Landscape Painting, c.1770?1840 397

Sam Smiles


18 Landscape and National Identity: the Phoenix Park Dublin
422

Dana Arnold


Part 6 Men and Women 449


19 The Elizabethan Miniature 451

Dympna Callaghan


20 ?The Crown and Glory of a Woman?: Female Chastity
in Eighteenth-Century British Art 473

Kate Retford


21 Serial Portraiture and the Death of Man in
Late-Eighteenth-Century Britain 502

Whitney Davis


22 Virtue, Vice, Gossip, and Sex: Narratives of Gender in
Victorian and Edwardian Painting 532

Pamela M. Fletcher


Index 552

About the Author

Dana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Middlesex University, UK. She has published several books on British architecture and visual culture and is author of the best selling Art History: A Very Short Introduction (2004). She is series editor of New Interventions in Art History, Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History, and Blackwell Anthologies in Art History. David Peters Corbett is Professor of History of Art 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.

Reviews

"The editors have brought together the latest conclusions ofprominent specialists of each period to build a fascinatingpanorama which is more than the sum of its parts and will delightboth newcomers to the field and specialists of British art who willappreciate its coherence and thorough enjoyability. A Companionto British Art should feature in all good libraries coveringBritish and art history." ( Cercles, 1 March 2014) "While aimed at 'tutors and students,' these often dense essayswill appeal most to scholars wishing to explore provocative newapproaches to the study of British art. Summing Up:Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." ( Choice, 1 November 2013)