The longlist for the 2024 Berger Prize was announced at the Walpole Society Summer Party on 28 June 2024, held at the London Library.
The chair of the judging panel, Dr Jonny Yarker, expressed his delight at the number and quality of submissions received, and the wide array of topics covered by the authors.
The nineteen longlisted titles are as follows:
Studio Ceramics: British Studio Pottery 1900 to Now (V&A)
Alun Graves
Thames & Hudson
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris
Alicia Foster
Thames & Hudson, published to coincide with an exhibition curated by the author at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (13 May - 8 October 2023)
William Gillies: Modernism and Nation in British Art
Andrew McPherson
Edinburgh University Press
Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts, and a Changing World
Annebella Pollen
Art/Books
A Singular Man: A Documented Life of the Artist Frederick Sandys: 1829-1904
Betty Elzea
Unicorn
Leonora Carrington: Revelation
Carlos Martín, Stefan van Raay, Tere Arcq and Naja Rasmussen
Editorial RM
Claudette Johnson: Presence
Dorothy Price and Barnaby Wright (editors)
Paul Holberton Publishing, accompanies a major exhibition of work by British artist Claudette Johnson (b. 1959) at The Courtauld Gallery (29 September 2023 - 14 January 2024)
Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art
Duncan Macmillian
Lund Humphries
Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland
Emile de Bruijn
Philip Wilson Publishers (Bloomsbury), in association with the National Trust
John Carr of York: Collected Essays
Ivan Hall, edited by Kenneth Powell
Paul Holberton Publishing
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance
Jake Subryan Richards and Victoria Avery (editors)
Philip Wilson Publishers (Bloomsbury) in association with the Fitzwilliam Museum
The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity
Kirsty Sinclair Dootson
Paul Mellon Centre
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists
Laura Freeman
Jonathan Cape (Penguin)
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London
Matthew Wells
gta Verlag
Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a Modern Age
Olivia Horsfall Turner
Lund Humphries, part of the V&A Nineteenth-Century Series
Shakespeare, Hogarth & Garrick: Plays, Painting and Performance
Robin Simon
Paul Holberton Publishing
Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830
Steven Brindle
Paul Mellon Centre
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813–1858
Tom Young
Paul Mellon Centre
Knick-Knackery: The Deards family & their luxury shops 1685–1785
Vanessa Brett
Privately published
The panel of judges will meet in the autumn to select six titles to be shortlisted for the Berger Prize 2024. The winner will be announced at an event in November.