This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays writtenby leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensiveintroduction to British art history. A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissionedessays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the historyof British artCombines original research with a survey of existingscholarship and the state of the fieldTouches on the whole of the history of British art, from800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after1500Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art ofthe eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of themost lively and innovative areas of art-historical studyPresents in depth the major preoccupations that have emergedfrom recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, Britishart’s relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality,and the institutions of the British art world