2024 Berger Prize Winner
December 4 2024
Picture: walpolesociety.org.uk
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The 2024 Berger Prize has been award to Tom Young's book entitled Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c.1813–1858 and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
According to the Walpole Society's website:
This revelatory book explores how the visual culture of members of the East India Company prompted significant structural change, nimbly traversing the complex world of post-colonial scholarship. for a modern audience. It explores fresh material from a compelling new angle, charting the ways in which new artistic forms and practices presaged shifts in the governance of the Company and its relationship with the people it governed.
Update - (Bendor adds) there's an excellent podcast with Tom Young (to whom, many congratulations) and also with the rest of the shortlisted authors, called British Art Matters. Available here on Apple Podcasts.
