BSECS

  • All you need to know about the society
  • The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Online reviews of events and exhibitions
  • Conference information and to register or submit a proposal
  • What’s going on in the world of 18th-century studies
  • Useful links, associate centres for eighteenth-century studies and societies
  • For enquiries about BSECS and its work
Skip to content
  • The Society
    • Join the Society
    • Society Officers
    • Postgraduates
    • Awards
    • Studies in the Eighteenth Century: book series
    • Giving to BSECS
    • AGM Minutes
    • Vacancies
    • Annual Accounts
  • Journal
    • About the Journal
    • Subscribe to the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
    • Book Reviews
  • Criticks
    • Music
    • Fine and Decorative Art
    • Theatre
    • Media
    • Fiction
    • Criticks – Information for Press Officers
  • Conferences
    • Annual conference
      • Conference registration
      • Submit a proposal
      • Conference archive
    • BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference
      • Conference registration
      • Submit a proposal
      • Bursaries
      • Conference archive
    • Terms and Conditions
  • News & Events
    • BSECS Announcements
    • Conferences, Calls for Papers & Other Events
    • Centres for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Policies
    • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)
    • Constitution
    • Social Media
    • Data Protection
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Website Terms & Conditions
  • Resources
  • Membership Voice
  • Contact Us

Criticks Reviews: Fine and Decorative Art

Waterloo Bicentenary Exhibitions

Waterloo Bicentenary Exhibitions

A diverse range of exhibitions commemorating the battle's bicentenary.

Event Date(s): 18th Jun 2015 - 31st Dec 2015

Reviewed by: Matthew McCormack, University of Northampton

Read more
Consuming Passions: Luxury Shopping in Georgian Britain

Consuming Passions: Luxury Shopping in Georgian Britain

A rich exhibition exploring eighteenth-century consumer culture.

Event Date(s): 28th May 2015 - 31st Dec 2015

Location: Fairfax House, York

Reviewed by: Caroline Cannon-Brookes

Read more
Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art

Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art

Severed heads, bared teeth, sharpened spears, huge genitals—what's not to like?

Event Date(s): 9th Dec 2014 - 16th Sep 2015

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Reviewed by: Deborah D. Rogers

Read more
An Elegant Society: Adam Buck, Artist in the Age of Jane Austen

An Elegant Society: Adam Buck, Artist in the Age of Jane Austen

A highly individual artist who was a miniaturist at heart.

Event Date(s): 12th Aug 2015 - 4th Oct 2015

Location: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford

Reviewed by: Miriam Al Jamil

Read more

Lines of Beauty: Rococo Plasterwork and the Art of Geoffrey Preston

Decorative plasterwork as a sculptural art form in its own right at the Foundling Museum.

Event Date(s): 17th Jul 2015 - 6th Sep 2015

Location: The Foundling Museum, London

Reviewed by: Paula Riddy

Read more

George Morland: In the Margins

An exhibition at Leeds University shows that George Morland deserves a more central position.

Event Date(s): 12th Jul 2015 - 31st Jul 2015

Location: The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, The University Library, Leeds University

Reviewed by: Caroline Cannon-Brookes

Read more
Parish, City, State: Hogarth and Government

Parish, City, State: Hogarth and Government

A focussed and informative contribution to our appreciation of Hogarth's achievements, and of our democratic system.

Event Date(s): 29th Jun 2015 - 29th Jun 2015

Location: Hogarth's House, Chiswick, London

Reviewed by: Miriam Al Jamil

Read more
Sweet 18

Sweet 18

An exceptional opportunity to consider today’s artistic milieu through an eighteenth-century lens.

Event Date(s): 1st May 2015 - 5th Jul 2015

Location: Kasteel D’Ursel Hingene, Belgium

Reviewed by: Arlene Leis

Read more
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album

Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album

Exhibition at The Courtauld highlights Goya's state of mind in the last years of his life.

Event Date(s): 31st May 2015 - 7th Jun 2015

Location: The Courtauld Gallery, London

Reviewed by: Miriam Al Jamil

Read more
George Stubbs. Lion Attacking a Horse (1762). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860

A brilliant and stimulating long view of Romantic art.

Event Date(s): 6th Mar 2015 - 6th Jul 2015

Location: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Reviewed by: Esther Chadwick

Read more
1 … 9 10 11 12 13 … 21

Search

Search against the review title, text, author, location or event date (please use the format dd/mm/yyyy).

Categories

  • All
  • Fiction
  • Music
  • Fine and Decorative Art
  • Theatre
  • Media

LATEST NEWS & EVENTS

  • News or Event

    New guide to intellectual history

    Samuel Woodall, a PhD researcher at the University of Buckingham and founder of The Intellectual Historian, has published a freely accessible guide, “What Does an Intellectual Historian Study?”...

  • News or Event

    Gulliver’s Travels: Before and Beyond Digital Exhibition

    Explore a new digital exhibition from the University of Liverpool's Digital Heritage Lab, showcasing material from the University's Special Collections & Archives to mark 300 years of Jonathan...

  • News or Event

    PG Editor for ‘Working Papers in the Humanities’

    The MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) is looking for a second postgraduate editor for its journal MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities (http://www.mhra.org.uk/journals/WPH). Working...

FOLLOW US

CONTACT US

For any enquiries contact us at web@bsecs.org.uk

  • © 2026 BSECS in partnership with Wiley
  • Privacy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Web Design
  • Cookie Preferences