British Art Studies

British Art Studies, an open-access digital journal, is a joint publication of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC), London, and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), New Haven. The journal has grown out of many conversations and collaborations between the two centres, working with scholars and institutions worldwide. The foremost aim of British Art Studies is to provide a platform for innovative thinking, debate, and dialogue about British art, an area of research that, as our first issue makes clear, is constantly changing, expanding, and being re-defined. Through BAS we want to encourage and share a multitude of approaches, voices, and objects. BAS also offers new models for digital publishing. As well as single-author articles, it includes interactive features that foster dialogue, discussion, and the participation of many voices – including those of readers.

In the period covered by this report, two open issues were published and the first special issue, co-edited by Martina Droth and Penelope Curtis, was planned for publication in July 2016. In the first year, over 20,000 unique users, based in countries across the world, visited the journal’s content, and we published the work of over twenty contributors.

Between 1st July 2015 and 30th June 2016, the journal team consisted of:

Sarah Victoria Turner (PMC), Editor

Martina Droth (YCBA), Editor

Hana Leaper (PMC), Deputy Editor

Tom Scutt (PMC), Digital Manager

Maisoon Rehani (PMC), Picture Researcher

All issues of the journal are available at www.britishartstudies.ac.uk