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British
Art Studies is a new open-access digital journal published jointly by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Offering a dynamic viewing
and reading experience on an interactive, multi-media platform, BASresponsively adapts to tablet, computer, and phone screens. Content can
also be saved, downloaded, and read offline. Offering free and open-access content, BAS requires
no passwords, subscriptions, or fees.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, BAS presents
innovative research and ideas on British art in an international context. Issue 1 features articles on Renaissance art criticism, the photographic lantern slide, images of charity in eighteenth-century London, the complex status of painting within the Arts
and Crafts movement, an unwritten history of women artists focusing on Magda Cordell McHale, and the post-industrial landscape in the work of Prunella Clough. As well as single-author articles, British
Art Studies includes collaborative features, photo essays, and films. One
Object takes a single object—a black limestone bust by the eighteenth-century sculptor Francis Harwood—as a starting point to think about materiality, portraiture, and race, through a co-authored discussion
and photographic essay by the artist Ken Gonzales-Day. Look
First showcases a series of evocative films exploring the work of postwar British photographer John Deakin. A Conversation
Piece solicits multiple voices—academics, curators, artists—to respond to the provocation: “There’s no such thing as British art.” A discussion board allows readers to add their own comments and responses.
For its cover, British
Art Studies presents a series of eight views of works and installations in British Art Show 8,
developed with the artists and curators.
In creating British Art Studies, we have constantly asked ourselves
what is possible on a digital platform that cannot be done in print. We hope that you will find British Art Studies an
exciting, stimulating, and refreshing response to this question.
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