The Historians of British Art is pleased to announce Book Award winners for publications from 2016. Awards are granted in three categories:
Pre-1800
Marcia Kupfer, Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300 (New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2016), 240 pages, ISBN: 978-0300220339, $85.
Post-1800
Lucy Curzon, Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain (New York: Routledge, 2016), 182 pages, ISBN: 9781472436504, $150.
Catherine Roach, Pictures-within-Pictures in Nineteenth-Century Britain (New York Routledge, 2016), 218 pages, ISBN: 9781472454690, $150.
Multi-Author
Eleanor Hughes, ed., with contributions by Eleanor Hughes, Richard Johns, Sophie Lynford, John McAleer, Christine Riding, Catherine Roach, Geoff Quilley, and Pieter van der Merwe, Spreading Canvas: Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 312 pages, ISBN: 9780300221572, $75.
Details are available here»