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Annette Carruthers is a senior
lecturer in the School of Art History
at the University of St Andrews.
October 468 pp. 285x245mm.
100 colour + 250 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19576-7 £60.00*
The Arts and Crafts Movement
in Scotland
Art 49
A History
Annette Carruthers
This authoritative book is the first to chronicle the Arts and Crafts
movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the
1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles
and rise to popularity among the wider public. The heyday of the
movement occurred between 1890 and 1914, a time when Scotland’s
art schools energetically promoted new design and the Scottish Home
Industries Association campaigned to revive rural crafts. Across the
country the movement influenced the look of domestic and church
buildings, as well as the stained glass, metalwork, textiles and other
furnishings that adorned them. Art schools, workshops and associations
helped shape the Arts and Crafts style, as did individuals such as Ann
Macbeth, W. R. Lethaby, Robert Lorimer, M. H. Baillie Scott, Douglas
Strachan, Phoebe Traquair and James Cromar Watt, among other wellknown
and previously overlooked figures. Together, these architects,
artists, and designers contributed to the expansion and evolution of the
movement both within and beyond Scotland’s borders.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
From Still Life
to the Screen
Print Culture, Display, and
the Materiality of the Image
in Eighteenth-Century
London
Joseph Monteyne
From Still Life to the Screen
explores the print culture of
18th-century London, focusing
on the correspondences between images and consumer objects.
In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers
such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets,
the connoisseur’s fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and
ornament in satires of fashion. The desire for goods emerged
in tandem with modern notions of identity, in which things
were seen to mirror and symbolise the self. Prints, particularly
graphic satires by such artists as Matthew and Mary Darly,
James Gillray, William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and
Paul Sandby, were actively involved in this shift. Many of these
images play with the boundaries between the animate and the
inanimate, self and thing. They also reveal the recurring motif
of image display, whether on screens, by magic lanterns, or in
‘raree-shows’ and print-shop windows. The author links this
motif to new conceptions of the self, specifically through the
penetration of spectacle into everyday experience.
Joseph Monteyne is associate professor in the history of art at
the University of British Columbia.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
August 288 pp. 256x192mm. 55 colour + 101 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19635-1 £35.00*
Exhibiting Englishness
John Boydell’s Shakespeare
Gallery and the Formation
of a National Aesthetic
Rosie Dias
In the late 18th century, as a
wave of English nationalism
swept the country, the printseller
John Boydell set out to create an
ambitious exhibition space, one
devoted to promoting and
fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With its
very name, the Shakespeare Gallery signalled to Londoners
that the artworks on display shared an undisputed quality and
a national spirit. Exhibiting Englishness explores the responses
of key artists of the period to Boydell’s venture and sheds new
light on the gallery’s role in the larger context of British art.
Tracking the shift away from academic and Continental
European styles of history painting, the book analyses the
works of such artists as Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, James
Northcote, Robert Smirke, Thomas Banks and William
Hamilton, laying out their diverse ways of expressing notions
of individualism, humour, eccentricity and naturalism.
Exhibiting Englishness also argues that Boydell’s gallery
radically redefined the dynamics of display and cultural
aesthetics at that time, shaping both an English school of
painting and modern exhibition practices.
Rosie Dias is associate professor in the history of art at the
University of Warwick.
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
August 288 pp. 256x192mm. 50 colour + 95 b/w illus.
HB ISBN 978-0-300-19668-9 £45.00*