New Book | Aquatint Worlds
From Yale UP:
Douglas Fordham, Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820 (London: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2019), 384 pages, ISBN: 978-1913107048, £45 / $60.
In the late 18th century, British artists embraced the medium of aquatint for its ability to produce prints with rich and varied tones that became even more stunning with the addition of color. At the same time, the expanding purview of the British empire created a market for images of far-away places. Book publishers quickly seized on these two trends and began producing travel books illustrated with aquatint prints of Indian cave temples, Chinese waterways, African villages, and more. Offering a close analysis of three exceptional publications—Thomas and William Daniell’s Oriental Scenery (1795–1808), William Alexander’s Costume of China (1797–1805), and Samuel Daniell’s African Scenery and Animals (1804–5)—this volume examines how aquatint became a preferred medium for the visual representation of cultural difference, and how it subtly shaped the direction of Western modernism.
Douglas Fordham is associate professor of art history at the University of Virginia.
Call for Submissions | Percy G. Adams Prize
From SEASACS:
Percy G. Adams Prize, SEASECS
Submissions due by 30 November 2019
The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) awards a biennial prize of $500 for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection. Eligible publications for this year must have been published between September 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019. Authors must be members of SEASECS at the time of submission. Articles may be submitted by the author or by another member. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2019. Please send submissions as PDF files, and address any queries about the prize to the Committee Chair, Amanda Strasik, at Amanda.Strasik@eku.edu.
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