Berger Prize 2025 Longlist

July 10 2025

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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

The Walpole Society, the home of the Berger Prize for excellence in British art publishing since 2024, announced the 2025 prize's longlist yesterday evening.

Here's a list of the books that have made the cut:

Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira (editors) - Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour

Rosie Broadley (editor) - Francis Bacon: Human Presence

Bruce Boucher - John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and his Collection

Esther Chadwick - The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Bryony Coombs - Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550

Paul Gough - Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist

Bendor Grosvenor - The Invention of British Art 

Elain Harwood and Alan Powers (editors) - Ernö Goldfinger

Mark Laird - The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations

Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman - Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women 1735-1830

Nicholas Olsberg - The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times

Madeleine Pelling - Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Eleonora Pistis - Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford

Dorothy Price, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware and Sarah Lea - Entangled Pasts, 1768-now: Art, Colonialism and Change

Natalie Prizel - Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies

Jeff Rosen - Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography

Fiona Smyth - Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, music, and architecture in the twentieth century

Gavin Stamp - Interwar British Architecture 1919-39

The winner will be announced on 12th November 2025.

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