The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2007

Short List

For immediate release

The British Art Journal is delighted to announce the Short List for the 2007 Berger Prize for British Art History, worth £5000 to the winner.
The six books short-listed for the 2007 prize (for an outstanding book published between 1 September 2006 and 31 August 2007) are:

Inigo Jones and The European Classicist Tradition
Giles Worsley
Yale isbn 978-0-300-11729-5 £40

A New World, England’s First View of America
Kim Sloan
British Museum isbn 978 0 7141 2650 0 [PB] £19.99

Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvage
John Harris
Yale for the Paul Mellon Centre isbn 9780300124200, £30

War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity
in Britain (1939-1945)
Brian Foss
Yale for the Paul Mellon Centre isbn 978-0-300-10890-3 £35

Pictures and Popery. Art an Religion in England, 1660-1760
Clare Haynes
Ashgate isbn 978-0-7546-5506-0 £55

James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. The Rediscovery of Antiquity
Ed Susan Weber Soros
Bard Graduate Center/Yale isbn 9780300117134, £60

Since its inception in 2001, the Berger Prize has come to be recognized as the most prestigious in the field. It celebrates outstanding achievement in the history of British art and is administered by The British Art Journal, the leading research journal, and awarded jointly with the Berger Collection Educational Trust of Denver. The Denver Art Museum houses the important collection of British art assembled by the late William MB Berger in honour of whose memory the prize was established.

Assessors
A panel of no fewer than five and no more than seven assessors will select the recipient. The assessors committee will include the editor of The British Art Journal (Mr. Robin Simon), and will be chaired by Dr. Timothy J. Standring, Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum, and Trustee of the Berger Collection Educational Trust.
The other assessors are:
Professor Linda Colley, Princeton University
Dr. Ann Bermingham, University of California at Santa Barbara
Olivier Meslay, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Dr. Martin Postle, Assistant Director, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Berger Prize
Titles Hors Concours

Hogarth France and British Art
The Rise of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Robin Simon
Paul Holberton Publishing/Hogarth Arts
isbn 978-0-9554063-0-0, £45

Inigo Jones’s ‘Roman Sketchbook’
Edward Chaney
isbn 0901953121 Maggs Bros/Roxburghe Club, £200

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About The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History

The British Art Journal established, in association with The Berger Collection Educational Trust, a new prize for excellence in the field of British art history, in honour of the memory of the late Willliam MB Berger. The establishment of the Prize is a recognition that some of the very finest work in art history is being carried out in the field of British art – and that much of it is being published by The British Art Journal.

The prize of £5,000 ($7,500) is awarded annually
by The British Art Journal  in association with the Berger  Collection Educational Trust of Denver, CO, USA.

• The aim of the Berger Prize is to reward excellence in the
history of British art.
• The Berger Prize will be awarded to an outstanding book or
exhibition/exhibition catalogue (in any language) appearing during the
preceding twelve-month period 1 September–31 August.
• The first Berger Prize was awarded in December 2002, and considered works appearing between 1 September 2001 and 31 August 2002.
• The Berger Prize will be decided by a panel of no fewer than five and no more than seven assessors, which will include Robin Simon, Editor
of  The British Art Journal, and Timothy Standring, Chief Curator,
Denver Art Museum. The other assessors in 2002 were: Professor Linda Colley, European Institute, London School of Economics;  Dr Anne Bermingham, University of California at Santa Barbara; Olivier Meslay, Musée du Louvre, Paris; and Christopher Lloyd, Surveyor of The Queen's Pictures
• Nominations are welcomed from institutions and publishers.
Other nominations should be supported by the names of two individual
scholars of good standing, together with their addresses and
telephone numbers/email addresses.
• Nominations should be made to:
The Secretary, Willam MB Berger Prize for British Art History,
The British Art Journal, 46 Grove Lane, London SE5 8ST, UK;
or via email to:
editor@britishartjournal.co.uk
• Upon the assessors’ acceptance of a nomination,  copies of the work in question must be submitted for further consideration.