British Art Studies

July 2021–June 2022

British Art Studies, Issue 20: July 2021

One Object Special Feature

‘Victorian Anatomical Atlases and Their Many Lives (and Deaths)’, introduction by Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

‘Anatomy in Context: Conversations in the Wellcome Collection, London’, filmed by Jonathan Law with Ludmilla Jordanova and William Schupbach

‘Bloodlines: Circulating the Male Body Across Borders in Art and Anatomy 1780–1860’, by Anthea Callen

‘Black Apollo: Aesthetics, Dissection, and Race in Joseph Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy’, by Keren Rosa Hammerschlag

‘Mr Joseph Maclise and the Epistemology of the Anatomical Closet’, by Michael Sappol

‘Joseph Maclise, Taylor & Walton, and Publishing on Gower Street in the 1840s’, by William Schupbach

‘“It Should Be on Every Surgeon’s Table”: The Reception and Adoption of Joseph Maclise’s Surgical Anatomy (1851) in the United States’, by Naomi Slipp

Animating the Archive

‘Slade, London, Asia: Contrapuntal Histories between Imperialism and Decolonization 1945–1989 (Part 1)’, by Liz Bruchet and Ming Tiampo

‘Slade, London, Asia: Animating the Archive (Part 1)’, Animating the Archive feature, by Liz Bruchet and Ming Tiampo

Articles

‘“Everything I Learnt About Activism

I Learnt in King’s Lynn”: Gustav Metzger’s Formative Years in King’s Lynn’, by Jonathan P. Watts

‘Lady of Silences: The Enigmatic Photo-Text Work of Zarina Bhimji’, by Allison K. Young

Conversation Piece

‘British Art After Brexit’, convened by the editorial team

British Art Studies, Issue 21: November 2021 – Redefining the British Decorative Arts

Special Issue, edited by Iris Moon

Articles

‘Unhomely: Redefining the British Decorative Arts’, by Iris Moon

‘England Am I? Elizabethan Clothing, Gender, and Crisis in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts’, by Sarah Bochicchio

‘Microorganisms, Microscopes, and Victorian Design Theories’, by Ariane Varela Braga

‘Tarnished Silver: Interpreting the Material Culture of the Atlantic Slave Trade Negotiations of 1715’, by Max Bryant

‘Cherokee Unaker, British Ceramics, and Productions of Whiteness in EighteenthCentury Atlantic Worlds’, by R. Ruthie Dibble and Joseph Mizhakii Zordan

‘Defining a New Femininity? Josiah Wedgwood’s Portrait Medallions of Sarah Siddons and his “Femmes Célèbres”’, by Patricia F. Ferguson

‘Classical Histories, Colonial Objects: The Specimen Table Across Time and Space’, by Freya Gowrley

‘Serving as Ornament: The Representation of African People in Early Modern British Interiors and Gardens’, by Hannah Lee

‘Ruth Ellis’s Suit’, by Lynda Nead

‘Colonial Trash to Island Treasure: The Chaney of St. Croix’, by Jessica Priebe

‘In the Flesh at the Heart of Empire: Life-Likeness in Wax Representations of the 1762 Cherokee Delegation in London’, by Ianna Recco

Features

‘The Chelsea Porcelain Case, British Galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’, convened by Iris Moon

‘Unpacking Wedgwood: An Interview with Roberto Visani’, by Caitlin Meehye Beach

‘Wild Porcelain’, cover collaboration with Michelle Erickson

‘What’s in a Label? Revising Narratives of the Decorative Arts in Museum Displays’, convened by Iris Moon

Another Crossing: Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage, by Glenn Adamson

‘In Sparkling Company: Presenting Eighteenth-Century Britain in Western New York State’, by Christopher Maxwell

British Art Studies, Issue 22: April 2022 – Thames River Works

Special Issue, edited by Shalini Le Gall and Justin McCann

Articles

‘“The Surrounding Great Work”: Memory, Erasure, and Curating the Built Environment of the West India Docks, 1802–2022’, by Aleema Gray and Danielle Thom

‘Ships and Souvenirs: Itineraries of the Golden Jubilee’, by Shalini Le Gall

‘Printed Ecologies: William Morris and the Rural Thames’, by Sarah Mead Leonard

‘“The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood”: The Tooley Street Fire’, by Nancy Rose Marshall

‘Women in Whistler’s Images of Chelsea and the Thames’, by Patricia de Montfort

‘Whistler and Battersea: The Aesthetics of Erasure and Redevelopment’, by Jon Newman

‘“Over London at Night”: Gasworks, Ballooning, and the Visual Gas Field’, by Jennifer Tucker

Read & Co., The Great Fire Near London Bridge Saturday, June 22nd 1861 (detail), 1861, lithograph, reproduced in British Art Studies, Issue 22: April 2022 – Thames River Works. Image courtesy of Alamy Stock Photo (all rights reserved)