Academic Faculty
- Dr Jo Applin
- Dr Tim Ayers
- Sarah Brown
- Dr James Boaden
- Prof David Corbett
- Dr Jason Edwards
- Dr Anthony Geraghty
- Prof Mark Hallett
- Books
- Articles
- PhD Students
- Dr Jane Hawkes
- Prof Helen Hills
- Dr Amanda Lillie
- Prof Richard Marks
- Dr Tom Nickson
- Prof Christopher Norton
- Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein
- Dr Sarah Turner
- Dr Cordula van Wyhe
- Dr Michael White
Tel: (01904) 434972 or 433267
E-mail: mlh5@york.ac.uk
Fax: (01904) 433918 or 433427
Professor Mark Hallett
BA (Cantab), MA, PhD (Courtauld Institute, London)
Mark Hallett is Professor of History of Art, Head of Department, and a member of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Research Interests
Mark Hallett’s research deals with British art between c.1660 and c.1850. His work in this area includes the two books The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth, published by Yale University Press in 1999, and Hogarth, published by Phaidon Press in 2000, together with a series of scholarly articles on subjects ranging from the London paintings of Antonio Canaletto to the role of press criticism at the Georgian Royal Academy. He has co-edited and contributed to a book of essays entitled Eighteenth-Century York: Culture, Space and Society, published in 2003. He is currently completing a book on the portrait practice of Sir Joshua Reynolds, for which he has been awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship (2003-2004) and a Mellon Senior Fellowship (2006-2007).
Mark has also worked on a number of exhibition projects with Tate Britain. He was involved in the organisation of the 2001 exhibition James Gillray: The Art of Caricature, and was the associate curator of the 2005 exhibition Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity. More recently, he co-curated the international exhibition of the work of William Hogarth, which opened at the Louvre in October 2006, travelled to Tate Britain in February 2007, and then moved to the Caixa Forum in Barcelona in May 2007. He and his co-curator, Christine Riding, wrote the scholarly catalogue that accompanied this exhibition (Hogarth, Tate Publishing, 2006).
More recently, Mark has been awarded a £477,000 AHRC grant for a collaborative project he has developed with art-historians at Tate Britain on the history of British art between the Restoration and the early eighteenth century. The three-year project, entitled 'Court, Country, City: British Art 1660-1735', will be launched in October 2009, and is designed to lead to an ambitious new scholarly interpretation of British art in this period, one that will be communicated through an innovative mixture of exhibitions, conferences, scholarly publications and online displays.
Mark has been involved in organising numerous conferences and workshops at the University of York. These include the day-conferences Representing Masculinities (1998), Exhibition: Art, Display and the 18th Century (2001), and The Englishness of English Art: Painting, Aesthetics and Nationhood 1760-1824 (2002). He co-convened the two-day conference Making Faces: New Approaches to Georgian Portraiture held at the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies and at Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire in November 2006. He also co-convened the two-day conference Living with the Royal Academy: Artistic Ideals and Experiences in Britain, 1768-1848, held at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies in November 2008. Over the spring and summer of 2007 he co-convened a series of four one-day AHRC research workshops on the theme of Empire and Landscape in the long eighteenth century.
Alongside these activities, Mark has successfully supervised a series of PhD students working on a wide range of topics in seventeenth-, eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British painting, printmaking and sculpture. He would welcome enquiries from anyone interested in postgraduate research in these areas.
Books
Mark Hallett and Christine Riding, Hogarth, Tate Publishing, 2006
Eighteenth Century York: Culture, Space and Society, ed. with Jane Rendall, Borthwick Institute, 2003
Hogarth, Phaidon Press, 2000.
The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth, Yale University Press, 1999
Articles
'A monument to intimacy: Joshua Reynolds's The Marlborough Family', in Art History, Vol.31, no. 5, 2008
'Reynolds, Celebrity and the Exhibition Space', and numerous catalogue entries, in Martin Postle (ed) Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity, Tate Publishing, 2005
'Reading the Walls: Pictorial Dialogue at the British Royal Academy', in Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 37, no. 4 (2004)
'From Out of the Shadows: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Captain Robert Orme', in Visual Culture in Britain, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004
'Manly Satire: William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress' in Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal (eds.), The Other Hogarth: The Aesthetics of Difference, Princeton University Press, 2001.
'James Gillray and the Language of Graphic Satire', in Richard Godfrey (ed.) Gillray and the Art of Caricature, Tate Gallery Publications, 2001.
'The Business of Criticism: the Press and the Royal Academy Exhibition in Eighteenth-Century London' in David Solkin (ed.) Art on the line: the Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836, Yale University Press, 2001.
'The view across the City: William Hogarth and the visual culture of eighteenth-century London' in David Bindman, Frederic Ogee and Peter Wagner (eds.), Hogarth: Representing Nature's Machines, Manchester University Press, 2001.
'Painting: Exhibitions, Audiences, Critics, 1780-1830', in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832, edited by Iain McCalman, Oxford Unversity Press, 1999
'Framing the Modern City: Canaletto's Images of London', in Michael Liversidge and Jane Farrington (eds.), Canaletto and England, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, 1993
'The Medley Print in Early Eighteenth-Century London', in Art History, Vol 20, no. 2, June 1997