Research highlights

Recent books

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  Serendipity:

  The Afterlife of the Object. Reaktion (2024), Carol Mavor.

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  Stigmatics and Visual Culture:

  Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy - Amsterdam University Press. Warr, C (2022).

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  Ford Madox Brown:

  The Manchester Murals and the Matter of History (1878-93). It has been nominated for the 2024 William B. Berger Prize for works on British Art History.

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  In the Footsteps of the Etruscans:

  Changing Landscapes around Tuscania from Prehistory to Modernity. Cambridge University Press. Barker, G. and Rasmussen, T. (2023)

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  Radical Picasso:

  The Use Value of Genius. Berkeley: University of California Press. C.F.B. Miller, 2021.

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  The Life of Lambert Lombard (1565):

  and, Effigies of Several Famous Painters from the Low Countries (1572). Edward Wouk, trans. and ed., Dominicus Lampsonius. 2021.

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  Like a Lake

  A story of uneasy love and photography. Carol Mavor, 2020.

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  Mrinalini Mukherjee

  Terracciano, Emilia. Shoestring, 2019.

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  Oud Holland:

  Netherlandish Art History in the Long Nineteenth Century. Edward Wouk

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  Bulletin of the John Rylands Library:

  Special Issue: Foreign Bodies: Neighbours, Strangers, Monsters. Dunlop, A & Warr, C (eds) 2019.

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  William Blake:

  The Man from the Future?, Visual Culture in Britain, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 285-406. Trodd, C & Whittaker, J (eds) 2018.

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  Frans Floris (1519/20–1570):

  Imagining a Northern Renaissance. Wouk, Edward H. Brill, 2018.

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  Art and Emergency:

  Modernism in Twentieth-Century India. Terracciano, Emilia. I.B. Tauris, 2018.

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  Sites unseen

  Washington D.C: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Luke Skrebowski, John Jacob, and Trevor Paglen, 2018.

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  Art Margins

  Vol 7 no.2, MIT Press. Luke Skrebowski, 2018.

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  Aurelia:

  Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairytale.Mavor, Carol. Reaktion Books, 2017.

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  Marcantonio Raimondi, Raphael

  and the Image Multiplied. Wouk, Edward H. Manchester University Press, 2016.

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  Prints in Translation, 1450–1750:

  Image, Materiality, Space. Edited by Karr Schmidt, Suzanne., Wouk, Edward H. Routledge, 2016.

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  Bulletin of the John Rylands Library:

  Investigating Marcantonio Raimondi. Volume 92, Number 2, Autumn 2016.

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  Iron, Ornament and Architecture

  in Victorian Britain: Myth and Modernity, Excess and Enchantment. Dobraszczyk, Paul. Routledge, 2014.

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  Museums and Restitution:

  New Practices, New Approaches. Arvantis, Kostas; Tythacott, Louise (eds.). Routledge, 2014.

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  Wounds in the Middle Ages

  Kirkham, Anne; Warr, Cordelia. Routledge, 2014.

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  Coral: Something Rich and Strange

  Endt-Jones, Marion (ed.). Liverpool University Press, 2013.

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  Simulating the Marvellous:

  Psychology, Surrealism, Postmodernism. Lomas, David (with Stubbs, Jeremy). Manchester University Press, 2013.

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  Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour

  Mavor, Carol. Reaktion Books, 2013.

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  Stirling and Gowan:

  Architecture from Austerity to Affluence. Crinson, Mark. Yale University Press, 2012.

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  Black and Blue:

  The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetee, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour. Mavor, Carol. Duke University Press, 2012.

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  Museum Bodies:

  The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing. Rees Leahy, Helen. Routledge, 2012.

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  Visions of Blake:

  William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930. Trodd, Colin. Liverpool University Press, 2012.

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  The New Hollstein:

  Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1650, Frans Floris de Vriendt. Wouk, Edward; Luijten, Ger (ed.). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision, 2011.

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  Aesthetics and Contemporary Art

  Armen Avanessian and Luke Skrebowski.

Curating exhibitions, displays and installations

Prizes

• The Manchester Together Archive Team (Amanda Wallace and Jenny Marsden from Manchester Art Gallery; Larysa Bolton from Archives+; and Kostas Arvanitis from University of Manchester) were awarded the "Working Together for Manchester" Award in the "Awards for Excellence 2019" of the Manchester City Council
• The Routledge book version of the AFS special issue, "Archives and New Modes of Feminist Research" (32.91-92) (where Jenna Ashton has published an article) has been awarded the 2018 Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists.
• Mark Crinson has won the Historians of British Art Prize (2014) in the post-1800 category for his book Stirling and Gowan: Architecture from Austerity to Affluence (Yale University Press). The prize is awarded by the Historians of British Art, an affiliated society of the College Art Association (USA).
• Charlie Miller won the 2012 Phillips Book Prize for his manuscript Radical Picasso: Surrealism and the Theory of the Avant-Garde. This highly prestigious prize is offered by the Phillips Collection in Washington DC and includes a generous subvention for publication of the book by California University Press.
• Edward Wouk won the Wolfgang-Ratjen-Preis (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 2012) for The New Hollstein Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1650. Frans Floris de Vriendt, ed. Ger Luijten, 2 vols., Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, 2011.